Whilst the initial project was considered a success in terms of a limited trial, this proposal is intended to gather a much wider sample population by installing a chromatic analysis system at ENW's Central Oil Reprocessing Depot (CORD) based at the Blackburn depot to enable every incoming oil sample to be analysed by both the traditional method and the chromatic method.
The stated objectives are:
The resulting data will be analysed at the Liverpool University and compared to the chemical analysis data from CORD and various chromatic based algorithms will be used to analysis the data and correlation between the chromatic values and the traditional chemical analysis. The aim of the project is to further prove the technique based on larger sample sizes.