Scope
This European Standard specifies the requirements for foot valves for use on transportable tanks with a minimum working pressure greater than 50 kPa for the transport of dangerous goods by road and rail.
It is applicable to metallic equipment for use on tanks with gravity and/or pressure bottom loading and discharge for liquid chemicals and liquefied gases.
It includes carbon dioxide while excluding refrigerated liquefied gases.
NOTE The standard is also applicable to liquefied gases including LPG, however, for a dedicated LPG standard see EN 13175 [3].
Purpose
- change of Scope in order to extend the Scope of EN 14433 in terms of valves
- revise the chapters regarding testing and marking, due to
- technical comments received from Germany during SR ballot of EN 14433:2014
- it was decided by CEN/TC 296 to revise the standard.
See DECISION 06/2020 taken by CEN/TC 296 on 2020/11/19 and confirmed by the members of CEN/TC 296 on 2020/12/17 (N 1052).
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