Ship&Offshore | Issue 04/2018
Portable sulphur test kit
Parker Kittiwake, a global manufacturer of condition monitoring technologies, has launched the X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analyser, a portable testing device which, among other parameters, measures the sulphur content in fuel. The XRF is said to provide an accurate indication of sulphur content through the analysis of a small fuel sample in less than three minutes. This gives both shipowners and port state control the ability to conduct laboratory-standard testing onsite, before non-compliant fuel is bunkered and before a vessel carrying non-compliant fuel leaves port, Parker Kittiwake said....