Standards Development

Scope

This document defines product specific rules (PSR) rotating electrical machines. It specifies the process and requirements for conducting life cycle assessments (LCA) in the context of Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) and Carbon Foor Print of a Product (CFP) for rotating electrical machines operating direct-online or intended for frequency converter (variable speed drive) operation. The aim is to ensure transparency of the applied methodology and to provide verifiable and comparable results.

This document applies for products used in industrial applications:

— three phase and single-phase low voltage AC motors;

o for direct-online operation;

o operating with variable speed drives;

— low voltage motors intended for potentially explosive atmospheres;

— low voltage synchronous reluctance motors;

— low voltage permanent magnet motors;

— low voltage AC servomotors;

— high voltage AC motors for direct-online operation.

This document can be applicable to:

— low voltage integrated VSD motors;

— gear motors;

— high voltage AC motors operating with variable speed drives;

— high voltage motors intended for potentially explosive atmospheres;

— low and high voltage generators;

— low and high voltage synchronous compensator.

This document is not applicable for:

— motors used in consumer applications;

— traction motors;

— electric vehicles;

— high voltage AC motors operating in variable speed drives;

— low voltage DC motors.

NOTE 1 For rotating electrical machines with safety-critical design constraints (for example equipment for explosive atmospheres), material-efficiency indicators, ECD measures, and other circular economy related requirements are interpreted with respect to mandatory safety requirements.

This document defines functional units and default scenarios in the product-specific context and common rules and guidelines for:

a) the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), including the requirements for default scenarios;

b) the Material Efficiency Assessment, including the requirements for default scenarios;

c) the LCA report and Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) or claim.

The LCA principles and framework are based on ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 and therefore out of scope of this standard.

In addition, this document defines specific ecodesign assessment methods and specifications for the material efficiency aspects of rotating electrical machines and equipment that are derived from published horizontal and generic standards for energy-related Products (EN 45550 to EN 45559 standard series).

The document specifies these generic standards in the context of rotating electrical machines further through assessment requirements and default scenarios to support ecodesign and related customer information.

Further, this document includes definitions and specifications to enable material efficiency assessments at system level of rotating electrical machines.

It also provides consistent and common criteria for considering material efficiency-related data to be operated by stakeholders along the lifecycle, supporting the building of digital product passport (DPP), data migration and interoperability of products and systems, including digital twins.