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PED Guideline: (B) Classification & Category

The PED Guidelines are not a legally binding interpretation of the PED. The legally binding text remains that of the Directive. However, the PED Guidelines represent a reference for ensuring consistent application of the PED.

PED Guideline B-32

Question:

  • A quick opening closure on a pressure vessel is “fitted with a device to prevent it being opened whenever the pressure or temperature of the fluid presents a hazard” in accordance with Annex I Section 2.3. Is such a preventive device to be considered as a safety accessory according to the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED)?
  • Answer

PED Guideline B-33

Question:

  • When a safety accessory consists of a safety chain which itself includes “items of pressure equipment” (for example a valve or a cylinder), in which category shall these "items of pressure equipment” be classified?
  • Answer

PED Guideline B-34

Question:

  • How to determine the category of a hermetically sealed refrigeration compressor?
  • Answer

PED Guideline B-35

Question:

  • Some piping is provided with a double envelope. How do these double envelopes have to be considered?
  • Answer

PED Guideline B-36

Question:

  • Are hot blast stoves, which heat incoming cold air to a blast furnace by a regenerative process, covered by the exclusion in Article 1 paragraph 2 (k)?
  • Answer

PED Guideline B-37

Question:

  • How to consider, for the application of PED, a condensate trap installed on piping?
  • Answer

PED Guideline B-38

Question:

  • What kind of silencers is covered by the exclusion of Article 1 paragraph 2 (p)?
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PED Guideline B-40

Question:

  • How to apply the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) to a pressure accessory equipped with a safety accessory?
  • Answer

PED Guideline B-41

Question:

  • Where to find additional information on classification of fluids based on PED Article 13 as of 1 June 2015?
  • Answer
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