Reference No: Conformity Assessment Bodies Forum PED/SPVD (CABF)

CABF-R-044 CABF
Relation to PED:

Article 1, CABF Recommendation

paragraph 2 (k)

Question: According to Article 1 paragraph 2 (k), blast furnaces, including furnace

cooling systems, hot-blast recuperators and some other items of
connected pressure equipment, are excluded from the scope of the PED.
Does this exclusion also apply to the interconnecting piping between the
items of pressure equipment mentioned in Article 1 paragraph 2(k)?

Answer: Yes

Reason: If the blast furnace is including the mentioned items of pressure

equipment, it is as well including the interconnecting piping.

Original Reference: TRG 148 Rev 0

Approved by CABF on: 2019-11-26/27

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