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Keeping the Oil Out: Protecting Industrial Facilities with Fluorescence Detection

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Lynn Savage, Features Editor, [email protected]

From Hurricane Katrina’s shutdown of oil refineries in the American South to the tsunami-induced nuclear emergencies in Japan, manufacturing facilities have recently faced one disaster after another, but they also face – every day – the threat of something seemingly less catastrophic: oil and grease. Spill some salad oil into a bowl of water, and you can easily see the sheen of the tasty dressing atop the surface. But salad oil is not a troublesome pollutant, and detecting far more minute droplets of fuel oil, gasoline, asphalt and various lubricants inside the...Read full article

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