ASTM D5772-10
Standard Test Method for Cloud Point of Petroleum Products (Linear Cooling Rate Method)

Standard No.

ASTM D5772-10

Release Date

2010

Published By

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

Status

Be replaced

Replace By

ASTM D5772-15

Latest

ASTM D5772-21

Scope

For petroleum products and diesel fuels, the cloud point is an index of the lowest temperature of its utility for certain applications. Wax crystals of sufficient quantity can plug filters used in some fuel systems.

Petroleum blending operations require precise measurement of the cloud point.

This test method can determine the temperature of the test specimen at which wax crystals have formed sufficiently to be observed as a cloud, with a resolution of 0.1°C.

This test method provides results that when rounded to the next lower integer are equivalent to Test Method D2500.

This test method is more precise than Test Method D2500.

1.1 This test method covers the description of the determination of the cloud point of petroleum products and biodiesel fuels that are transparent in layers 40 mm in thickness by an automatic instrument using a linear cooling rate.

1.2 This test method covers the range of temperatures from −60 to 49°C with temperature resolution of 0.1°C, however, the range of temperatures included in the 1997 interlaboratory cooperative test program only covered the temperature range of –56 to +34°C.

1.3 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.

1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.

ASTM D5772-10 Referenced Document

• ASTM D2500 Standard Test Method for Cloud Point of Petroleum Products
• ASTM D4057 Standard Practice for Manual Sampling of Petroleum and Petroleum Products
• ASTM D4177 Standard Practice for Automatic Sampling of Petroleum and Petroleum Products

ASTM D5772-10 history

• 2021 ASTM D5772-21 Standard Test Method for Cloud Point of Petroleum Products and Liquid Fuels (Linear Cooling Rate Method)
• 2020 ASTM D5772-20 Standard Test Method for Cloud Point of Petroleum Products and Liquid Fuels (Linear Cooling Rate Method)
• 2017 ASTM D5772-17 Standard Test Method for Cloud Point of Petroleum Products and Liquid Fuels (Linear Cooling Rate Method)
• 2015 ASTM D5772-15 Standard Test Method for Cloud Point of Petroleum Products (Linear Cooling Rate Method)
• 2010 ASTM D5772-10 Standard Test Method for Cloud Point of Petroleum Products (Linear Cooling Rate Method)
• 2005 ASTM D5772-05 Standard Test Method for Cloud Point of Petroleum Products (Linear Cooling Rate Method)
• 2004 ASTM D5772-04 Standard Test Method for Cloud Point of Petroleum Products (Linear Cooling Rate Method)
• 2003 ASTM D5772-03 Standard Test Method for Cloud Point of Petroleum Products (Linear Cooling Rate Method)
• 2002 ASTM D5772-02 Standard Test Method for Cloud Point of Petroleum Products (Linear Cooling Rate Method)
• 1995 ASTM D5772-95 Standard Test Method for Cloud Point of Petroleum Products (Linear Cooling Rate Method)