“The new standards describe measures designed to answer the question of how sticky oil is (F3633) and how to make standard mixtures of weathered, or evaporated, oil (F3634),” says ASTM member Merv Fingas. “These standards will aid in the preparedness for oil spills should they occur.”
F3633 summarises a method to measure the adhesion to a stainless-steel needle as a means to compare the relative adhesion of a target oil. F3634 summarises methods to produce representative residual oil following evaporative weathering using a rotary evaporator.
This effort directly relates to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #6 on clean water and sanitation, as well as #14 on life below water.
