Does anyone know if there is a reliable method to determine oil concentration (crude oil to be precise) using a UV-Vis spectrophotometer?

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Isam Eldin Hussein Elgailani

Please look at the following below links which may help you in your analysis:

http://ogbus.ru/files/ogbus/eng/authors/Evdokimov/Evdokimov_1e.pdf

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/f9/5e/e9/5051187cdf4f4f/US20160011102A1.pdf

Thanks

Behrad Farzinfar

Isam Eldin Hussein Elgailani thanks for adding an answer to my question, I checked out the publications you sent but unfortunately both only talked about characterizing crude oil and neither said anything about determining crude oil concentration in emulsions!

Nilimesh Das

You can look at the following discussion

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_I_determine_the_concentration_of_oil_in_an_oil-water_mixture_using_UV-VIS_spectrophotometer