Department of Additives offers research services and processing works on application petroleum product, their quality and processing and performance of additives for petroleum products.

Department of Additives:

• carriers out research on:
  - development of production technology of additives for gasoline,diesel fuels, biofuels, heating oils, lubricants and other petroleum products;
  - modification of the additives production technologies implemented in industry;
  - the properties and usefulness of additives used on domostic and foreign markets;
  - influence of additives on performance of petroleum products;
  - implementation of production technologies of additives for petroleum products in industry.
• participates in development of laboratory tests of additives, assessed in round-robin evaluation carried out by the Institute of Interlaboratory Studies (IIS) in Holland.
  
• cooperates with producers of gasoline, diesel fuels, biofuels, heating oils, lubricating oils and other petroleum products on application and quality of additives.
• cooperates with engine userrs on monitoring of changes of lubricating oils properties during their operation.

Laboratory of Additive Analyses in the Department of Additives has the accreditation certificate No AB 102 issued by PCA covering specialist analytical examination of additives for fuels, biofuels, as well as new and lubricating oils.
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Laboratory of Additives Analyses offers the following analytical services:

• monitoring of change of lubricating oils properties during their operation
• testing of physicochemical properties of new and used lubricating oils, additives for gasoline, diesel fuel, biofuels, heating fuels, and base oils;
• determination of elements content by ICP AES method in accordance with ASTM 4951, ASTM 5185, and PN-V-04030
• determination of phosphorus, magnesium, and calcium content in biofuels in accordance with PN-EN 14107 and PN-EN 14538
• determination of elements content in diesel fuels according to a new draft of the Worldwide Fuel Charter by ASTM D 5185 procedure
• determination of density and relative density of liquids by digital density meter, kinematic viscosity, surface and interfacial tension, total base number, acid number, sulphated ash, flash point, water content, saponification number, hydroxyl value, amine value, PIBSA value, turbidity with turbidimeter, compatibility of lubricity additives with engine oils
• examination of molecular structure of additives by ASTM E 168 infrared spectrometry method.