Approvals for Ragasco Gas Cylinders
RAGASCO AS and the Clear View tm line of LPG cylinders are certified in accordance with the Transportable Pressure Equipment Directive (TPED) modules B and C1. All cylinders are marked with p 0036 and -40oC. This implies that filled products may be transported and (for most countries) used in all EC-countries without further local approvals.
RAGASCO regards this to be the basis for manufacturing and approvals in all EC-countries from the issuing date 2001-10-25, resulting in more than 2.5 million cylinders. In addition, approximately 500.000 cylinders are approved by local authorities in various markets on all continents.
The original approval was based on the German/ADR requirements, granted in February 2000. TÜV München, which is accredited by ZLS as the approving authorities in Germany on this type of equipment, did the approval work. They also act as our Notified body - the third party inspector approving the manufacturing line and the products.
For non-EC countries, the local authorities must approve Clear View tm. By basing the application on the TPED-approval, experience is that local approval usually is a formality, and that for practical purposes has limited impact on time and cost during launching.
There are available both p-marked and locally approved valves for these cylinders, depending on the market/country. Design, approval testing and production testing are based on the requirements of EN 12245 "Transportable Gas Cylinders - Fully Wrapped Composite Cylinders", with additional tests to give even greater focus on rough handling. It also complies with ISO 11119-3.2 and EN14427.
TPED refers to ADR related to transportation of dangerous goods, thus a TPED product may be transported within the whole EC. ADR further refers to the European technical standard EN12245 and EN14427, which both cover technical and quality assurance requirements for design and manufacturing of composite cylinders. These are legally equally valid, but because EN12245 was the only one approved at the time we started, our formal approval is based on that. ISO 11119-3 is very similar, except it is approved by member countries from the whole world.
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For filling and retesting, the CEN standardization organization has developed EN14763 and EN14767 as technical guidelines. These are approved by the member countries to CEN, but they are not yet referred to in ADR- they were not ready in time for the last ADR revision. In addition, RAGASCO has a product specific document covering the detailed instruction for filling and retesting Clear View tm. Some countries stipulate 10 year retest intervals and other countries stipulate a 5 year retest interval. Ragasco is continuously performing tests to document the limited deterioration that normal use of the cylinders provoke over time (no corrosion, no permanent deformation) and thus convince the competent authorities that retest interval should be at least 10 years.
In the USA, the cylinders are approved in accordance with DOT-SP-12706, which is based on ISO11119-3.2, CFR49, FRP-1 and DOT specific requirements. Authorized Testing Institute is the third party approval organization for the manufacturing line and product.