Oil detection process and apparatus

• Main Authors: Faenza William James, Cadieux, Jr. Edmond J
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 15.08.2017
• Subjects: ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE ORUNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; ADHESIVES; CHEMISTRY; CIGARETTES; CIGARS; DYES; FIRELIGHTERS; FUELS; FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; LUBRICANTS; LUBRICATING COMPOSITIONS; MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FORELSEWHERE; MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION; MEASURING; METALLURGY; MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS; MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS; NATURAL GAS; NATURAL RESINS; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PAINTS; PEAT; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; PHYSICS; POLISHES; POSTAL SORTING; SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SMOKERS' REQUISITES; SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTEDPIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; TESTING; TOBACCO; TRANSPORTING; USE OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES EITHER ALONE OR AS LUBRICATINGINGREDIENTS IN A LUBRICATING COMPOSITION

A process for detecting oil or lubricant contamination in a manufactured product, the process comprising adding a fluorescent taggant to oils or lubricants contained in processing machinery for said product, conveying said product past an infrared detection apparatus, irradiating said product with infrared radiation from said detection apparatus as it passes the detection apparatus, and detecting infrared radiation emitted from said irradiated product.