Refrigeration and air-conditioning installations
Draft Royal Decree adopting the safety regulations for refrigeration
installations and their complementary technical instructions
The draft Royal Decree consists of a preamble, one article, six additional provisions, six transitional provisions, one repealing provision and three final provisions.
The planned regulatory structure includes one set of regulations, which contains the general standards, and several sets of complementary technical instructions, which lay down the specific technical requirements deemed necessary in accordance with current technology for the safety of persons and property.
The draft contains the following complementary technical instructions:
IF-01 Terminology
IF-02 Refrigerant classes
IF-03 Refrigeration system classes
IF-04 Use of the various refrigerants
IF-05 Design, construction, materials and insulation used for refrigeration components
IF-06 Installation components
IF-07 Special machinery room, design and construction
IF-08 Overpressure protection for installations
IF-09 Trials, tests and checks prior to commissioning
IF-10 Markings and documentation
IF-11 Cold-store chambers, artificial atmosphere chambers, refrigerated processing facilities
IF-12 Electrical installations
IF-13 Minimum technical requirements for authorisation as a refrigeration business
IF-14 Periodic maintenance, checks and inspections of refrigeration installations
IF-15 Commissioning refrigeration installations
IF-16 Personal protection measures
IF-17 Handling refrigerants and reducing leaks in refrigeration installations
IF-18 Pipe identification and symbols to be used in refrigeration installation diagrams
IF-19 Refrigeration engineers: core competencies to be certified by accredited certification bodies
IF-20 Thermal installations in buildings with primary circuits in
compact equipment that uses refrigerants of groups 2 and 3 special
conditions
IF-21 List of reference UNE standards