Sunday, June 6, 2010

MNI - Moisture & Impuriteis

All crude or refined oil carried with them some inherent moisture (water) & insoluble impurities

When MNI is too excessive, there will be water separation and sedimentation, especially in crude oil

Generally speaking, crude oil conform to commercial specification as per standard trading rules are generally homogeneous with no visible or little impurities.

Refined oil MNI spec is 0.1% but generally <0.02% - anything higher than that you will see free water droplets - likely cause sampling during raining day with small umbrella

Impurities generally is about 0.02% for crude and 0.01% for refined

Standard specification for CPO - MNI 0.25% for Malaysia domestic specs but 0.5% for Indonesian CPO

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