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Application Compendium - Agilent Technologies

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Authors<br />

Jonah Kirkwood † and Mustafa<br />

Kansiz*<br />

<strong>Agilent</strong> <strong>Technologies</strong><br />

† Mississauga, ON, Canada<br />

* Melbourne, Australia<br />

Identifi cation of contaminants in<br />

vehicle fuel tank caps using FTIR ATRmicroscopy<br />

<strong>Application</strong> note<br />

Materials testing and research<br />

Introduction<br />

Manufacturers of parts and components to the automotive industry are<br />

required to assure the quality of their products, and FTIR spectroscopy is<br />

widely used for this purpose. In this example, it was apparent that fuel tank<br />

caps were being contaminated by an unknown material during production.<br />

The contaminants were ~20–300 µm in size. As the unknown particles were<br />

small in size, an FTIR microspectroscopy technique was used to investigate.

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