LATEST, NEW & UPDATED STANDARDS IN THE FIELD OF ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING Written and compiled by Consultant David Richards Hon.FSEE, CEng, CEnv


Traditionally, towards the end of a calendar year, there is an increase in the number of new standards published. The end of last year was no exception. Unlike several recent reports, only a small number of these new documents, relate to sustainability issues or products. Of these a few are entirely related to sustainability


issues and include documents on establishing good practices for combatting land degradation and


Category Environmental Testing


Standard BS ISO 2812


BS ISO 19683 BS ISO 19924 BS EN 60749


Contamination Climatic


BS EN ISO 14644-15 ISO 6270


Shock & Vibration


PD IEC/TS 60079-43 BS ISO 13373-9 PD ISO/TS 14837-31


BS ISO 16063-33 ISO 18437-6


Electro-Magnetic


BS EN ISO 19901-2 BS ISO 20154 BS EN 61000-4


BS EN 62433 Sustainability


BS EN 62920 BS ISO 14026 BS ISO 14055-1


BS ISO 16079-1 BS ISO 27914 BS ISO 35103 BS EN 50625-2-4 PD CEN ISO/TR 52022-2


BS EN 61400-25 Miscellaneous


New Work Items In order to give members the opportunity to take part in the setting of standards, the following are recently announced new standards work, along with the relevant BSI committee (in brackets).


ISO 14955-1 PD ISO/TS 16829 BS EN ISO/IEC 17025 BS ISO 18322 ISO 20485 ISO 15800 CEN/TS 16675 ISO 18434-2 ISO/TS 19677


ISO 22848


EN 61000-2-10 IEC 61000-4-24


IEC 61123 IEC 62899-502-2


desertification as well as carbon dioxide capture, transport and geological storage. Others relate to the testing or condition monitoring of sustainability products (PV panels and wind turbines). However, the vast majority of the new documents


encompassed by this report, are related to traditional environmental product evaluation and testing. These include several documents related to space products


Description


Paints and varnishes. Determination of resistance to liquids. -1 Immersion in liquids other than water. -2 Spotting methods.


Space systems. Design qualification and acceptance tests of small spacecraft and units. Space systems. Acoustic testing.


Semiconductor devices. Mechanical and climatic test methods. -4 Damp heat, steady state, highly accelerated stress test (HAST). -6 Storage at high temperature.


Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments. Assessment of suitability for use of equipment and materials by airborne chemical concentration.


Paints and varnishes. Determination of resistance to humidity. -1 Condensation (single-sided exposure). -3 Condensation (in-cabinet exposure with heated, bubbling water reservoir).


Explosive atmospheres. Equipment in adverse service conditions. Condition monitoring and diagnostics of machines. Vibration condition monitoring. Diagnostic techniques for electric motors.


Mechanical vibration. Ground-borne noise and vibration arising from rail systems. Guideline on field measurements for the evaluation of human exposure in buildings. Methods for the calibration of vibration and shock transducers. Testing of magnetic field sensitivity.


Mechanical vibration and shock. Characterization of the dynamic mechanical properties of visco-elastic materials. Time- temperature superposition. Petroleum and natural gas industries. Specific requirements for offshore structures. Seismic design procedures and criteria. Ships and marine technology. Guidelines on vibration isolation design methods for shipboard auxiliary machinery.


Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC). Testing and measurement techniques. -12 Ring wave immunity test. -39 Radiated fields in close proximity. Immunity test.


EMC IC modelling. Models of integrated circuits for EMI behavioural simulation. -2 Conducted emissions modelling (ICEM-CE). -3 Circuits for EMI behavioural simulation. Radiated emissions modelling (ICEM-RE).


Photovoltaic power generating systems. EMC requirements and test methods for power conversion equipment. Environmental labels and declarations. Principles, requirements and guidelines for communication of footprint information.


Environmental management. Guidelines for establishing good practices for combatting land degradation and desertification. Good practices framework. Condition monitoring and diagnostics of wind turbines. General guidelines. Carbon dioxide capture, transportation and geological storage. Geological storage. Petroleum and natural gas industries. Arctic operations. Environmental monitoring. (no current standard is superseded). Collection, logistics & treatment requirements for WEEE. Treatment requirements for photovoltaic panels.


Energy performance of buildings. Thermal, solar and daylight properties of building components and elements. Explanation and justification.


Wind energy generation systems. Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants. -1 Overall description of principles and models. -5 Compliance testing.


Machine tools. Environmental evaluation of machine tools. Design methodology for energy-efficient machine tools. Non-destructive testing. Automated ultrasonic testing. Selection and application of systems. General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories. Space systems. General management requirements for space test centres. Non-destructive testing. Leak testing. Tracer gas method. Soil quality. Characterization of soil with respect to human exposure (EH/4). Waste. Test methods for the determination of the monolithic status of waste to be landfilled (EH/4). Condition monitoring and diagnostics of machines. Thermography. Image interpretation and diagnostics (GME/21).


Guidelines for assessing the adverse impact of wild land fires on the environment and to people through environmental exposure (FSH/16).


Test method for measuring stress corrosion crack growth rate of austenitic steels and alloys under constant-load condition in high- temperature water (ISE/NFE/8). Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). Environment. Description of HEMP environment. Conducted disturbance (GEL/210).


Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). Testing and measurement techniques. Test methods for protective devices for HEMP conducted disturbance (GEL/210). Reliability testing. Compliance test plans for success ratio (DS/1). Printed electronics. Mechanical and environmental combined stress test methods for flexible OLED elements (AMT/9).


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(design qualification and acceptance tests of small spacecraft, acoustic testing and the general management requirements for space test centres) as well as new documents on EMC testing, non-destructive testing, condition monitoring and guidelines on vibration isolation design methods. There are also several technical specifications providing guidelines on aspects of environmental engineering.


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