EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, provides precise and fast testing services within the scope of EN 1012-3 testing. This European Standard is applicable to process gas compressors and process gas compressor units with a working pressure greater than 0,5 bar (gauge), input shaft power greater than 0,5 kW and designed to compress all gases other than air, nitrogen or gas . This standard addresses all major hazards, hazardous situations and events associated with the design, installation, operation, maintenance, disassembly and disposal of process gas compressors and process gas compressor units when used as process gas compressors.
This part of EN 1012 includes machines that include compressor units under the general term:
The requirements of this European Standard do not take into account the interaction between the compressor/compressor unit and other operations carried out in the field.
Performance levels or safety integrity levels are an important aspect of compressor design and should be determined by the manufacturer and user based on a risk assessment. This European standard does not cover the safety aspects of road transport for trailers, which are dealt with by EC legislation.
If common requirements for functional safety are to be applied to all process compressors, the diversity in the applications of process compressors can result in significantly different levels of residual risk. Therefore, in addition to the requirements of this standard, it may be necessary to apply risk assessment for safety-related control systems in certain applications to determine performance levels or safety integrity levels for relevant aspects of functional safety.
It was considered a practical move to separate the requirements for process gas compressors from those for air, nitrogen and other inert gases so that the requirements for one type of compressor could be changed without affecting the entire standard.
EUROLAB assists manufacturers with EN 1012-3 test compliance. Our test experts, with their professional working mission and principles, provide you, our manufacturers and suppliers, the best service and controlled testing process in our laboratories. Thanks to these services, businesses receive more effective, high-performance and quality testing services and provide safe, fast and uninterrupted service to their customers.
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