The Pressure Equipment Directive outlines essential safety requirements for pressure equipment, including that equipment must be designed, manufactured, checked, and installed (if applicable) to ensure safety under intended and foreseeable conditions like misuse. Requirements cover adequate design strength and safety factors, appropriate manufacturing like welding qualifications and inspections, and use of materials with proper properties that meet specifications and allow for traceability.
The Pressure Equipment Directive outlines essential safety requirements for pressure equipment, including that equipment must be designed, manufactured, checked, and installed (if applicable) to ensure safety under intended and foreseeable conditions like misuse. Requirements cover adequate design strength and safety factors, appropriate manufacturing like welding qualifications and inspections, and use of materials with proper properties that meet specifications and allow for traceability.
The Pressure Equipment Directive outlines essential safety requirements for pressure equipment, including that equipment must be designed, manufactured, checked, and installed (if applicable) to ensure safety under intended and foreseeable conditions like misuse. Requirements cover adequate design strength and safety factors, appropriate manufacturing like welding qualifications and inspections, and use of materials with proper properties that meet specifications and allow for traceability.
• Essential Safety Requirements - pressure equipment must be:
• Designed As to • Put into service as per • Manufactured ensure manufacturer’s instructions • Checked its safety • Other foreseeable conditions • Equipped and installed (if when (including potential misuse) applicable)
• And they qualitatively cover:
Design Manufacturing Materials
• Adequate strength • WPS and welding • Appropriate properties
• Appropriate Safety factors personnel to be approved • Covered by EN, EAM or • Calculation/experimental by NoBo or recognized PMA method third party • Compulsory declaration • Provisions for safe • NDT from material supplier handling/operation • Operating instructions affirming compliance with • Safety accessories • Final proof test (normally a specification. against overpressure hydrostatic, other tests • Traceability of material allowed with additional from receipt of material measures, such as NDT) through final testing
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