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Contents<br />

5.3 Energy Transfer and Quenching at low temperature . . . . . . . . . . 214<br />

5.4 Modeling the temperature effect on crude oil fluorescence . . . . . . . 216<br />

5.5 Quenching <strong>of</strong> crude oil fluorescence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227<br />

5.6 Viscosity effect on crude oil fluorescence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229<br />

5.7 Thermodynamic Considerations <strong>of</strong> crude oil photophysics . . . . . . . 231<br />

5.8 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238<br />

6 Conclusions and Future Work 240<br />

A Reference Lifetime Standards 243<br />

A.1 Standards for FD lifetime measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243<br />

A.2 HPTS: 8-hydroxypyrene-1,3,6-trisulphonic acid trisodium salt (com-<br />

mon name: Pyranine) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244<br />

A.3 SPA N-(3-sulfopropyl) acridinium salt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247<br />

A.4 Rhodamine B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249<br />

A.5 Acridone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251<br />

A.6 Coumarin 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254<br />

A.7 Coumarin 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256<br />

A.8 Coumarin 314 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258<br />

A.9 Lucifer Yellow CH di-potassium salt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260<br />

B Supplementary Data 262<br />

B.1 Frequency Domain Lifetime Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262<br />

C HCFI analysis - an application <strong>of</strong> crude oil fluorescence lifetime<br />

analysis 272<br />

C.1 FD analysis <strong>of</strong> HCFI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273<br />

C.1.1 Distinguishing HCFI by lifetime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276<br />

C.2 A final word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279<br />

D Published Work 281<br />

Bibliography I<br />

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