Safety regulations mandate the testing of the flash point of diesel, jet fuels, biodiesel and various liquids to ensure industrial safe transportation, storage, processing and waste disposal.

If safety is so critical, why do classical Pensky Martens and Cleveland open cup flash point professional testers still use open flames and large quantities of fuel for flash point testing? Strict safety regulations in refinery laboratories speak against using open flames close to highly flammable liquids.

MINIFLASH from Grabner Instruments (Austria) is a uniquely designed family of flash point testers: A patented detection method measures the instantaneous pressure increase inside a continuously closed testing chamber resulting from a high-energy electric arc, thus making the MINIFLASH an unrivalled leader for safety in flash point testing. The unit´s continuously closed cup design and small sample volumes of around 1 mL ensure maximum safety, avoid obnoxious fumes in the testing area, and reduce sample waste. MINIFLASH determines the flash point fully automatically according to the advanced standards ASTM D6450 and D7094, offering comparable or even better precision than the classical Pensky Martens method ASTM D93A.

Its unsurpassed levels of safety and ease of use, its compact size and portable design make the MINIFLASH the preferred instrument for heavy duty environments, such as offshore platforms:

“All units have been very good for us. Very user friendly, efficient and strong enough to last in an offshore environment. I remember the old days for testing flash points and these units are light years ahead in design and ease of use.”

Wayne Russell, M-I Swaco, Offshore, Aberdeen, Scotland