Article 1 This regulation was formulated according to the "Regulation on Safety Supervision of Special Equipment" (hereinafter referred to as "Regulation") with a view to specifying the pressure piping components type test work and ensuring the manufacturing quality of pressure piping components.
Article 2 The pressure piping components type test specified in this regulation is the technical document examination, specimen inspection and test as well as safety feature test conducted in order to verify whether the product safety meets the safety technical requirements.
Article 3 For all the pressure piping components applied in the People's Republic of China and meeting the application scope of "Regulation", their type test shall meet those specified in this regulation, and their safety performances shall meet the relevant safety technique specifications and the basic requirements specified in corresponding standards. In principle, the safety performances of the imported pressure piping components shall not be less than the basic requirements on safety performances of the pressure piping components in China.
This regulation excludes the type test of safety valves.
Article 4 The pressure piping components type test shall be carried out by the Type Test Institutions that are authorized by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. The Type Test Institution shall carry out the pressure piping components type test within its authorized scope.
Article 5 After accepting the type test invitation of the pressure piping components manufacturing organization or its entrusted import commission agent, the pressure piping components type test institution shall develop the type test scheme according to those specified in the relevant appendix in this regulation, and also shall inform the specific testing time.
Article 6 The manufacturing organization of pressure piping components ot its entrusted import commission agent shall provide the following data when applying for the type test to the Type Test Institution.
(I) Name and address of the manufacturing organization (the import commission agent still shall provide its name and address);
(II) Name, specification scope, technical parameter as well as the accepted standards of the products applying for type test;
(III) written statement on not reporting the same application to any other type test institutions in the past;
(IV) Other data including the design documents needed in the type test.
Article 7 The pressure piping components type test includes the design examination (including the design documents and manufacture technological documents) and the specimen (test sample) inspection and test.
The type test procedures include design review, extracting test specimens (test samples), inspection and test, management of test specimens, issuing type test report and type test certificate.
See Appendix A for the elementary items and requirements of type test, and see Appendixes B~I for the the items, contents, methods and requirements of the type tests on typical products.
Appendixes B~I in this regulation cover the basic requirements on the type test of of the typical products of pressure piping components, the Type Test Institution shall formulate detailed type test scheme aiming at specific product structures.
Article 8 The pressure piping components meeting one of the following conditions shall be carried out with type test:
(I) The manufacturing organization manufactures the typical pressure piping components specified in Appendixes B~I of this regulation for the first time or for addtional projects;
(II) The manufacturing of pressure piping components is allowed to adopted type test method;
(III) Requirement specified in the safety technique specifications.
Article 9 The pressure piping components type test shall cover certain range of products in different test units. The test units shall be divided according to the process function, manufacture process, design method, structural style and failure mode of the pressure piping components, ans please see Appendiexes B~I for the range of products covered by the pressure piping components type test.
Article 10 The Type Test Institution shall carry out inspection and test on the specimens (test samples) as required. The inspecters and testers shall be responsible for the correctness of the inspection and test results, anyone shall not fabricate or distort the inspection and test results. Except for those inspection and test that must be carried out at the sampling site or need special professional equipments, the test shall be carried out in the test and inspection sites of the Type Test Institution.
