ISO 9030:1990

Crude petroleum — Determination of water and sediment — Centrifuge method

Specifies a method for the laboratory determination. The precision data of this procedure have only been determined for water contents up to 1 % (V/V). Includes principle, apparatus, reagents, sampling, procedure, expression of results, precision and test report. A centrifuge tube is shown in figure 1. The procedure for reading the volume of water and sediment is shown in figure 2. The precision of the method is shown in figure 3. The sample handling is described in annex A.