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It is imperative to replicate real-world conditions while compressing the testing duration to facilitate early evaluations, thereby optimizing time and cost efficiencies. Traditional immersion protocols, reflective solely of full ballast tank conditions, inadequately expedite the corrosion process representative of an average ballast tank environment. Through the integration of immersion with fog\/dry conditions, aligning the test protocol more closely with the internal conditions of an average ballast tank, heightened rates of general corrosion are achieved. This augmentation yields an acceleration factor of 7.82 times the standard test duration, under the assumption of a general corrosion rate of 0.4 mm\/year for uncoated ballast tank steel, with both sides exposed. Subsequently, the fog\/dry test protocol, albeit only resembling the environment of an empty ballast tank, closely trails in terms of acceleration efficacy. 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