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DIN Standards Committee Mechanical Engineering

Overview

This standard defines relevant requirements set out in Annex I of the new EC Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, relating to machines which were placed on the European Economic Area (EEA) market for the first time, with the intent of simplifying the means of proving conformity with such requirements. Once this standard is designated a harmonized standard in the Official Journal of the European Communities, a manufacturer applying this standard may assume compliance with the requirements of the Machinery Directive (the so-called presumption of conformity). This European Standard establishes the technical safety requirements for: - constructing; - assembling; - erecting; - operating; - servicing a liquid pump or pump unit. It contains a list of significant hazards, which can arise with the use of a liquid pump, and establishes the requirements and/or measures which will lead to a reduction of the risks. Liquid pumps covered by this European Standard are: - rotodynamic pumps; - rotary positive displacement pumps; - reciprocating displacement pumps, supplied separately without drive (electric motor or internal combustion engine). In general, pumps are described as being terminated by their inlet and outlet connections as well as by their shaft ends. Pumps supplied in this form are usually called "bareshaft pumps". They are 'machines' in the definition of the Machinery Directive. The assembly of a bareshaft pump with its driver can require measures that are outside the scope of this European Standard. Pump units are described as: liquid pumps together with a driver and including transmission elements, baseplates, and any auxiliary equipment. This European Standard neither deals with the technical safety requirements for the design or manufacture of drivers nor of auxiliary equipment. It does not set down either requirements for the risks directly arising from means provided for the portability, transportability and mobility of pump units during or between periods of their operation, nor the requirements for transmission shafts linking a tractor or other self-propelled machinery to a pump. This European Standard does not cover pumps and pump units for the following applications: - pumps and pump units whose only power source is directly applied manual effort; - pumps and pump units for medical use used in direct contact with the patient; - pumps and pump units specially designed or put into service for nuclear purposes which, in the event of failure, can result in an emission of radioactivity; - pumps and pump units for use on seagoing vessels or mobile off-shore units; - pumps and pump units specially designed for military or police purposes. Neither does it cover pumps and pump units for hydraulic power transmission. Specific requirements for particular features of pumps additional to the common requirements set out in this standard can be found in other standards such as EN 1028, EN 1829 and EN 13951, and in European Standards on submersible pump units and for liquid pumps for the use in agrifoodstuff industries. This standard contains the German version of EN 809:1998+A1:2009 which has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 197 "Pumps" of the European Committee of Standardization (CEN). The following changes have been made with respect to DIN EN 809:1998-10: * the normative references and the bibliography have been updated *scope: new definition of the term machine for bareshaft pumps *safety requirements and/or measures: new description of the requirements for guards *information for use: adaptation to the 2006/42/EC *an informative Annex ZB on the relationship of this European Standard with the essential requirements of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC has been incorporated. The national interests during the preparation of the standard were represented by Committee NA 060-11-01 AA "Kreiselpumpen" ("Rotodynamic pumps") of Technical Section "Pumps" of the Mechanical Engineering Standards Committee (NAM) at DIN. Manufacturers' representatives and users of pumps, as well as representatives of professional and trade associations were involved in the preparation of the standard.

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Responsible national committee

NA 060-11-01 AA - Centrifugal pumps  

Responsible european committee

CEN/TC 197 - Pumps