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with model fuel mixtures. This fairly complex apparatus combines a desorption<br />

mini-oven with on-line gas chromatography (GC), to allow the on-line analysis of<br />

the desorbed mixture during a given desorption cycle. By a proper optimization of<br />

the measurement conditions in real time, in particular the GC sensitivity range<br />

and the desorption temperature profile, a very high sensitivity (0.1 microgram)<br />

was easily obtained for the measured weights.<br />

This very high sensitivity eventually enabled to determine partial sorption data<br />

differing by three orders of magnitude for the same experiment which, to the best<br />

of our knowledge, has never been reported so far. Several examples for multi-<br />

component sorption results will be discussed with a particular focus on two<br />

leading polymer materials used in multi-layer fuel tanks (high density<br />

polyethylene HDPE and an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer EVOH) [4]. The<br />

whole set of sorption data revealed opposite trends for their swelling in model<br />

fuel mixtures ethanol/i-octane/toluene for a wide range of compositions typical for<br />

the various types of fuels. While HDPE absorbed preferentially the apolar<br />

hydrocarbons, EVOH displayed a very strong affinity towards ethanol. Another<br />

striking fact was that both barrier materials showed very different affinities for<br />

both hydrocarbons with a preferential sorption of toluene owing to its strong<br />

polarizability, in good agreement with former observations made for related<br />

permeability measurements [3].<br />

References :<br />

[1] T. McNally, G.M. McNally, S.B. Byrne, W.R. Murphy, and I. Gilpin, Annual Technical<br />

Conference - ANTEC, Conference Proceedings, 3 (1998) 2642- 2646.<br />

[2] J. Wijmans, R. Baker, Journal of Membrane Science 107 (1995) 1-21 (review).<br />

[3] M. Nulman, A. Olejnik, M. Samus, E. Fead, and G. Rossi, Society of Automotive Engineers,<br />

Special Publication, SP-1365 (1998) 41-48.<br />

[4] R. Clément, C. Kanaan, B. Brulé, H. Lenda, P. Lochon, A. Jonquières, Journal of Membrane<br />

Science 302 (2007) 95-101.

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