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RPI/1 - Refractory products and materials

Sector: Manufacturing

Categories: Glass. General | Refractories | Glass and ceramics industries | Industrial furnaces. General | Ceramics. Advanced | Fuel furnaces | Raw materials | Thermistors | Shipbuilding and marine structures. General | Fire protection equipment | Non-metalliferous minerals | Ceramics. General | Chemical analysis | Alarm and warning systems | Capacitors. Fixed | Building structures | Chimneys. Shafts. Ducts | Marine engines. Propulsion systems

Overview: Under the direction of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee, is responsible for the UK input to CEN/TC 187 and ISO/TC 33 and liaise with other appropriate technical committees and their working groups as required.

Committee standards activity

In Progress (32)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

New Work Item for the identical adoption of ISO 5014:2025 Dense and insulating shaped refractory products - Determination of modulus of rupture at ambient temperature to replace EN 993-6:2018 Methods of test for (dense) shaped refractory products - Part 6: Determination of modulus of rupture at ambient temperature

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-04-03
Proposal
New Work Item for the identical adoption of ISO 8894-2:2007 Refractory materials - Determination of thermal conductivity - Part 2: Hot-wire method (parallel0 to replace EN 993-15:2005 Methods of test for dense shaped refractory products - Determination of thermal conductivity by the hot-wire (parallel) method

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-04-03
Proposal
N614 - NWI for CEN to develop ISOAWI 21068-4 under VA Chemical analysis of raw materials and refractory products containing silicon carbide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride and sialon — Part 4: XRD methods

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Manufacturing | Chemical technology | Chemical analysis

Proposal begins : 2022-12-06
Proposal
ISO/TC 33 N1349 ISO/NP TS 16370 Guidance on selection of abrasion resistant refractory for circulating fluidized bed boiler

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Manufacturing | Refractories

Proposal begins : 2022-01-24
Proposal
ISO/TC 33 N1324 ISO/PWI 20182.2 Refractory test-piece preparation -- Gunning refractory panels by the pneumatic-nozzle mixing type guns

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Manufacturing | Refractories

Proposal begins : 2021-11-03
Proposal
ISO/TC 33 N1322 ISO/NP 21068-4 Chemical analysis of raw materials and refractory products containing silicon carbide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride and sialon -- Part 4: XRD methods

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Manufacturing | Chemical technology | Chemical analysis

Proposal begins : 2021-09-01
Proposal
ISO/TC 33 N 1235 - ISO/NP 24467 Refractory materials -- Determination of tensile strength at room temperature

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2019-07-08
Proposal
ISO/NP 22685, ISO/TC 33 N 1233 Refractory products -- Determination of compressive strength at elevated temperature

Categories: Standardization. General rules | Manufacturing | Glass and ceramics industries | Glass and ceramics industries. Processes | Ceramics | Refractories

Proposal begins : 2019-06-28
Proposal
ISO/NP 21068-3 (Ed 2) - Chemical analysis of silicon-carbide-containing raw materials and refractory products — Part 3: Determination of nitrogen, oxygen and metallic and oxidic constituents

Categories: Standardization. General rules | Manufacturing | Chemical technology | Chemical analysis

Proposal begins : 2021-08-11
Proposal
ISO/NP 21068-3 (Ed 2) - Chemical analysis of silicon-carbide-containing raw materials and refractory products — Part 3: Determination of nitrogen, oxygen and metallic and oxidic constituents

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Manufacturing | Chemical technology | Chemical analysis

Proposal begins : 2021-08-11
Proposal
Published (75)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

BS ISO 5014:2025 Dense and insulating shaped refractory products. Determination of modulus of rupture at ambient temperature

Categories: Refractories

Published standard begins : 2025-03-17
Published standard
BS ISO 23071:2021 Refractory products. Determination of reduced species in carbon containing refractories by XRD

Categories: Refractories

Published standard begins : 2021-04-21
Published standard
BS ISO 22685:2021 Refractory products. Determination of compressive strength at elevated temperature

Categories: Refractories

Published standard begins : 2021-10-28
Published standard
BS ISO 22605:2020 Refractories. Determination of dynamic Young’s modulus (MOE) at elevated temperatures by impulse excitation of vibration

Categories: Refractories

Published standard begins : 2020-08-18
Published standard
BS ISO 22016:2015 Determination of sulfur in refractory products and raw materials by gravimetric, photometric and titrimetric methods

Categories: Refractories

Published standard begins : 2015-05-20
Published standard
BS ISO 21736:2020 Refractories. Test methods for thermal shock resistance

Categories: Refractories

Published standard begins : 2020-10-08
Published standard
BS ISO 18886:2016 Refractory test-piece preparation. Gunning refractory panels by wet gunning techniques

Categories: Refractories

Published standard begins : 2016-04-13
Published standard
BS ISO 16334:2013 Monolithic refractory products. Determination of resistance to explosivespalling

Categories: Refractories

Published standard begins : 2013-08-16
Published standard
BS ISO 16206:2025 Phase quantitative analysis of residual quartz in silica bricks. X-ray diffraction method

Categories: Refractories

Published standard begins : 2025-07-08
Published standard
BS ISO 16169:2018 Preparation of silicon carbide and similar materials for analysis by ISO 12677 X-ray fluorescence (XRF). Fused cast-bead method

Categories: Refractories

Published standard begins : 2018-07-30
Published standard
Withdrawn (32)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

DD ENV 1402-8:1999 Unshaped refractory products. Determination of complementary properties

Categories: Refractories

Withdrawn begins : 2003-10-28
Withdrawn
DD CEN/TS 993-11:2003 Dense shaped refractory products. Determination of resistance to thermal shock

Categories: Refractories

Withdrawn begins : 2008-01-08
Withdrawn
BS ISO 8840:2021 Refractory materials. Determination of bulk density of granular materials (grain density)

Categories: Refractories

Withdrawn begins : 2024-06-10
Withdrawn
BS ISO 10081-4:2007 Classification of dense shaped refractory products. Special products

Categories: Refractories

Withdrawn begins : 2014-09-08
Withdrawn
BS EN ISO 26845:2008 Chemical analysis of refractories. General requirements for wet chemical analysis, atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) methods

Categories: Refractories

Withdrawn begins : 2009-11-02
Withdrawn
BS EN ISO 21068-3:2008 Chemical analysis of silicon-carbide-containing raw materials and refractory products. Determination of nitrogen, oxygen and metallic and oxidic constituents

Categories: Refractories

Withdrawn begins : 2024-06-21
Withdrawn
BS EN ISO 21068-2:2008 Chemical analysis of silicon-carbide-containing raw materials and refractory products. Determination of loss on ignition, total carbon, free carbon and silicon carbide, total and free silica and total and free silicon

Categories: Refractories

Withdrawn begins : 2024-06-21
Withdrawn
BS EN ISO 21068-1:2008 Chemical analysis of silicon-carbide-containing raw materials and refractory products. General information and sample preparation

Categories: Refractories

Withdrawn begins : 2024-05-16
Withdrawn
BS EN ISO 20565-3:2008 Chemical analysis of chrome-bearing refractory products and chrome-bearing raw materials (alternative to the X-ray fluorescence method). Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES)

Categories: Refractories

Withdrawn begins : 2010-09-08
Withdrawn
BS EN ISO 20565-2:2008 Chemical analysis of chrome-bearing refractory products and chrome-bearing raw materials (alternative to the X-ray fluorescence method). Wet chemical analysis

Categories: Refractories

Withdrawn begins : 2010-09-08
Withdrawn