The invention provides a method for measuring the
antioxidant content in a lubricating oil by use of
linear sweep voltammetry, and belongs to the technical field of
electrochemical detection. The method comprises the following steps: adding an
ethanol solution of which the
antioxidant concentration is known to an
electrolyte, measuring by use of the
linear sweep voltammetry to obtain the characteristic
voltage-current curve of the
electrolyte, calculating the characteristic
peak area of the curve, establishing a working curve of the
antioxidant concentration and the characteristic
peak area, extracting new lubricating oil with the known antioxidant content and lubricating oil with unknown antioxidant content by using
ethanol, adding the supernatant liquid to the
electrolyte, measuring by use of the
linear sweep voltammetry to obtain the characteristic
voltage-current curve of the electrolyte, calculating the characteristic
peak area of the curve, and substituting the characteristic peak area of the known antioxidant into the working curve to obtain the correction coefficient of the lubricating oil of the antioxidant to obtain the unknown antioxidant content. The method is simple, convenient and quick to operate, and high in sensitivity, and can be widely applied to the measurement of the antioxidant content in
synthetic oil or
mineral oil lubricating oil and the rapid evaluation of the oxidative stability of the lubricating oil.