Answer
A –Acceptable
• Sulfur content + 0.59R, Max limit 0.53%S acceptable.
• Refer ISO 4259.
• To avoid ships being unjustly fined for marginal excess in sulfur content of the MARPOL-delivered sample
taken during bunkering, a 95% confidence interval has been given. This implies that a sulfur content of up to
0.53% may be accepted as compliant when testing the “in-use” and “on-board” samples.
Test repeatability is the ability of a lab to test the same material successively under identical conditions and
obtain results whose difference is within a standard acceptable range.
Test reproducibility is the ability of the lab to test the same material twice under different conditions and obtain results whose difference is within a standard acceptable range