ISO-17025 accreditation of Naias Labs is expected to fully cover ISO-8217 list of specs within 2012

Naias Labs further widens it`s ISO 17025:2005 field of accredited tests to fully cover the ISO 8217 standard methods used to classify residual and distillate marine fuels. The ISO 17025:2005 accreditation standard today is considered to be the highest  rank of international recognition for testing laboratories and Naias Labs will become the first & only private petrochemical laboratory in the Eastern Mediteranean area with ISO 17025 accreditation for all quality specs of marine bunkering. The extended field of ISO 17025:2005 accredited standard testing methods of Naias Labs will be :
Description

Standard

Acid Number

ASTM D664

Aluminum & Silicon

IP 501

Ash

ISO 6245

Calcium

IP 501

Calorific Value   (Bomb method)

ASTM D 240

Carbon / Hydrogen Content (Elemental analysis)

ASTM D 5291

Carbon Residue (Micro weighing method)

ISO 10370:1993

Cetane Index (CCI by four variable equation)

ASTM D4737

Density

ASTM D4052

Density

ISO 12185

Distillation (atmospheric)

ISO 3405

Distillation (atmospheric)

ASTM D86

Flash Point (P.Martens closed cup - proc. Α and Β)

ASTM D93  

Flash Point (P.Martens closed cup - proc. Α and Β)

ISO 2719

Jet Fuel Thermal Oxidation Tester (JFTOT)

ASTM D 3241

Lubricity

ISO 12156-1

Phosphorus

IP 501

Pour Point

D97

Pour Point

ISO 3016

Sodium

IP 501

Sulfur Content (Ultra low - UV fluor. method),

ISO 20846

Sulfur Content (X-ray fluorescence method)

ISO 8754

T.S.P.

ISO 10307-2

Vanadium

IP 501

Viscosity (Kinematic)

ASTM D445

Viscosity (Kinematic)

ISO 3104

Water Content

ASTM D95

Water Content

ISO 3733

Zinc

IP 501