SIM.M.FF-K4: Volume at 20 L and 100 mL 1/20 Draft B Report Final Report on Regional Key Comparison for Volume of liquids at 20 L and 100 mL Conducted January 2007 to December 2008 SIM.M.FF-K4 Roberto Arias 1 , Manuel Maldonado 1 , John Wright 2 , Tanisha Wallace 3 , Sandra Rodríguez 4 , Orlando Pinzón 5 , Abed Morales 6 , Maria Vega 7 , Claudia Santo 8 , Fernando Kornblit 9 , Dalni Malta 10 1Centro Nacional de Metrología (CENAM) 2 National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST 3 Bureau of Standards Jamaica, BSJ 4 Laboratorio Costarricense de Metrología, LACOMET 5 Centro Nacional de Metrología de Panamá, CENAMEP 6 Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual, INDECOPI 7 Instituto Boliviano de Metrología, IBMETRO 8 Laboratorio Tecnológico del Uruguay, LATU 9 Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial, INTI 10 Instituto Nacional de Metrología, Normalizaçao e Qualidade Insdustrial, INMETRO CONTENT 1. INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………………… 2 2. CONDITIONS SELECTED……………………………………………………… 2 3. PARTICIPANTS AND SCHEDULE ………………………………………… 3 4. THE TRANSFER PACKAGES ……………………………………………….. 3 4.1 Description of the transfer package for the 20 L transfer standard 4.2 Description of the transfer package for the 100 mL transfer standard 5. MEASUREMENT PROGRAM ………………………………………………… 4 6. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE ……………………………………………. 4 7. RESULTS …………………………………………………………………………….. 6 7.1 Stability of the transfer standards 7.2 Results reported by the participants 8. DEGREES OF EQUIVALENCE ………………………………………………. 8 9. LINK TO CCM.FF-K4 ……………………………………………………………. 14 10. DISCUSSION OF RESULTS …………………………………………………… 19 11. CONCLUSIONS ……………………………………………………………………. 19 12. REFERENCES ……………………………………………………………………….. 20 13. APPENDIX A Figures 14. APPENDIX B Traceability and uncertainty information 15. APPENDIX C Calculation of RCRVs