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Título : Statistical representativeness of ballast water sampling
Autor : Basurko, Oihane C.; Mesbahi, E.
Citación : PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART M-JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING FOR THE MARITIME ENVIRONMENT, 2011, 225, 183-190
Resumen : The International Maritime Organization's (IMO's) G2 guideline (Guidelines for ballast water sampling) clearly states that ballast water samples are required to be representative of the whole ballast water discharged. Enforcement and implementation of the ballast water convention largely depend on defendable case based on evidence that a ship entering territorial waters has not complied with regulations. The statistical representativeness of ballast water samples has been discussed in this study with additional emphasis on practicality of the sampling procedure. The mathematical formula for determining a sample size for a proportion from a finite population has been used to identify the minimum number of samples which could be considered as statistically representative of the ship's ballast water. Results clearly indicate that a large amount of ballast water, the 16 per cent of ballast water (8000 m(3)) for a ship discharging 50 000 m(3) of ballast water, must be sampled to achieve certain level of confidence which could be translated as a true representation of the ship's ballast water discharged and potentially used in any further legal actions by states or ship operators.
Palabras clave : ballast water regulations; enforcement; representative sampling; statistical representativeness
Fecha de publicación : 2011
Editorial : PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING PUBLISHING LTD
Tipo de documento: Article
Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.1177/1475090211412682
URI : http://dspace.azti.es/handle/24689/686
ISSN : 1475-0902
Patrocinador: UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)
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