INVESTIGATION OF OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS BY LIGHT SCATTERING

Computational modeling of light scattering and propagation through petroleum products, which take into account the shaped slab geometry, was studied. Light propagation through a slab has been represented via transmitted and reflected electromagnetic fields by using a finite thin petroleum cell model. Numerical aspects of the light scattering process, which are based on numerically solving Maxwell's equations, have been calculated for petroleum products. It has been described the computation details for the slab model for computing light scattering using specific petroleum products such as diesel, gasoline, oil, paraffin etc. to investigate the optical properties of these materials. The results of benchmark computations have been presented for the considered as shaped slab geometry. By the light scattering, we were able to set a standard for the quality of petroleum products, which matches our previous work on different geometries [1-4]