specifies the essential elements of a procedure
for verifying the performance of thermal spray
equipment to ensure it can operate according
to the manufacturer’s specifications or those
established by the user.
Ñ BSR/NFPA 25-202x, Standard for the
Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-
Based Fire Protection Systems. This is a revision
of ANSI/NFPA 25-2023. This revision establishes
the minimum requirements for the periodic
inspection, testing, and maintenance of water-
based fire protection systems and the actions
to undertake when changes in occupancy, use,
process, materials, hazard, or water supply that
potentially impact the performance of the water-
based system are planned or identified.
Ñ BSR/NFPA 715-202x, Standard for the
Installation of Fuel Gases Detection and
Warning Equipment. This is a revision of ANSI/
NFPA 715-2023. This standard contains require-
ments for the selection, design, application,
installation, location, operation, performance,
inspection, testing, and maintenance of
equipment that detects and warns of concentra-
tions of fuel gases in buildings and structures
that could pose a life or property safety risk.
Ñ BSR/NFPA 770-202x, Standard on Hybrid
(Water and Inert Gas) Fire-Extinguishing
Systems. This is a revision of ANSI/NFPA
770-2021. This revision contains the minimum
requirements for the design, installation, accep-
tance, inspection, testing, and maintenance of
hybrid fire-extinguishing systems that use a
combination of atomized water and inert gas to
extinguish fire.
Ñ BSR/ASME PHM-01-202x, Guideline for
Manufacturing Prognostics and Health
Management (PHM): Determining PHM
Inclusion in Factory Operations. This is a new
standard intended to assist manufacturers in
making decisions about when and where to
integrate monitoring, diagnostic, and prognostic
tools and systems in their facilities to ideally
optimize maintenance of their manufacturing
operations and improve their production
planning. It is designed to aid in answering
key questions such as where implementation
of PHM can improve productivity and costs,
maintain process quality targets, or help solve
chronic maintenance problems.
Ñ BSR/ASME B31.3-202x, Process Piping. This is
a revision of ANSI/ASME B31.3-2022. Rules for
the Process Piping Code, Section B31.3, have
been developed considering piping typically
found in petroleum refineries onshore and
offshore petroleum and natural gas production
facilities chemical, pharmaceutical, textile,
paper, ore processing, semiconductor, and
cryogenic plants food and beverage processing
facilities and related processing plants and
terminals. This Code prescribes requirements for
materials and components, design, fabrication,
assembly, erection, examination, inspection, and
testing of piping, and it applies to piping for all
fluids, including raw, intermediate, and finished
chemicals petroleum products gas, steam, air,
and water fluidized solids refrigerants and
cryogenic fluids.
Ñ BSR/HPVA HP-1-202x, Standard for Hardwood
and Decorative Plywood. This is a revision of
ANSI/HPVA HP-1-2020. The standard establishes
nationally recognized marketing classifications,
quality criteria, test methods, definitions, and
product marking and designation practices for
plywood produced primarily from hardwoods.
This revision includes several revisions to the
veneer grading tables and content throughout.
Ñ BSR/AWWA D121-202x, Bolted Aboveground
Thermosetting FRP Panel-Type Tanks for Water
Storage. This is a new standard that describes
the design, fabrication, installation, construction,
inspection, and testing of bolted aboveground
thermosetting fiberglass-reinforced plastic
(FRP) panel-type tanks for potable water,
reclaimed water, and nonpotable water.
Included are requirements for the fabrication,
handling design, construction, and testing
of FRP panels, concrete and steel foundation
structure members, foundation steels bolts, and
accessories.
Ñ BSR/NFPA 10-202x, Standard for Portable Fire
Extinguishers. This is a revision of ANSI/NFPA
10-2022. The provisions of this standard apply
to the selection, installation, inspection, main-
tenance, recharging, and testing of portable fire
extinguishers and Class D extinguishing agents.
The requirements given herein are minimum
and do not apply to permanently installed
systems for fire extinguishment, even where
portions of such systems are portable (such as
hose and nozzles attached to a fixed supply of
extinguishing agent).
Ñ BSR/AGMA ISO 14104-A17, Gears – Surface
Temper Etch Inspection after Grinding,
Chemical Method. This reaffirmation of a
national adoption, ANSI/AGMA 2007-C00:1995/
ISO 14104:1995 (R2013), explains the
materials and procedures necessary to
determine, evaluate, and describe localized
overheating on ground surfaces. A system to
describe and classify the indications produced
during this inspection is included however,
specific acceptance or rejection criteria are not.
An industry-wide survey was conducted to
establish common solutions in time that were
acceptable to the greatest number of users.
Safety and environmental precautions are
included for those not familiar with storage,
handling, use, and disposal of concentrated
acids, alkalis and solvents however, they do not
supersede the latest applicable requirements.
Ñ BSR/IIAR 6-202x, Standard for Inspection,
Testing, and Maintenance of Closed-Circuit
Ammonia Refrigeration Systems. This is a
revision of ANSI/IIAR 6-2019. This standard
specifies minimum requirements for
inspection, testing, and maintenance of
closed-circuit ammonia refrigeration systems.
It is intended to assist individuals responsible
for developing and implementing inspection,
testing, and maintenance programs for facil-
ities with stationary closed-circuit ammonia
refrigeration systems using recognized and
generally accepted good engineering practices
(RAGAGEP).
Ñ BSR/IEEE 2831-202x, Recommended Practice
for Distributed Traveling Wave Fault Location
Devices for High-Voltage Direct-Current (HVDC)
Transmission Lines. This is a new standard.
The category and composition, technical
requirements, test methods, inspection rules,
marking, packing, transportation, storage, and
installation of distributed traveling wave fault
location devices for HVDC transmission lines are
detailed. This recommended practice is appli-
cable to distributed traveling wave fault location
devices for HVDC transmission lines and alter-
nating current (AC) transmission lines.
Ñ BSR/IEEE 2832-202x, Guide for Control and
Protection System Test of Hybrid Multi-Terminal
High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Systems.
This is a new standard providing general
guidance on the control and protection tests
of hybrid multi-terminal HVDC systems that
consist of line-commutated converter (LCC) at
the sending end and voltage source converter
(VSC) at the receiving end. It involves precon-
ditions, composition of the test system, test
contents and boundaries, test items and design
principles, and organization and quality control
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requirements. The tests involved include factory
test, acceptance test, site commissioning test,
and trial operation.
Ñ BSR/AWS B5.16-202x, Specification for
the Qualification of Welding Engineering
Personnel. This is a new standard that estab-
lishes the requirements for qualification of
welding engineering technologists and welding
engineers employed in the welding industry. It
defines the minimum experience, examination,
application, qualification, and requalification
requirements, and methods. This specification
is a method for engineering personnel to
establish a record of their qualification and
abilities in welding industry work, in the devel-
opment of procedures, process controls, quality
standards, problem solving, and so forth.
Ñ BSR/ASME B1.20.5-1991 (R202x), Gaging for
Dryseal Pipe Threads – Inch. This is a reaffirma-
tion of ANSI/ASME B1.20.5 -1991 (R2019). The
scope of this standard is to provide information
regarding practical dryseal thread inspection
methods and commonly used gauges for
production evaluation purposes.
ISO DRAFT
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARDS
The following are standards that the
International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) is considering for approval. The proposals
have received substantial support within the
technical committee that developed them
and are now being circulated to ISO members
for comment and vote. Readers interested in
reviewing or commenting on these standards
should order copies from ANSI.
Ñ ISO/IEC DIS 21471, Information technology
– Automatic identification and data capture
techniques – Extended rectangular data matrix
(DMRE) bar code symbology specification
Ñ ISO/DIS 15708-1, Non-destructive testing –
Radiation methods for computed tomography
– Part 1: Terminology
Ñ ISO/DIS 15708-2, Non-destructive testing –
Radiation methods for computed tomography
– Part 2: Principles, equipment and samples
Ñ ISO/DIS 15708-4, Non-destructive testing –
Radiation methods for computed tomography
– Part 4: Qualification
Ñ ISO/IEC DIS 29794-5, Information technology
– Biometric sample quality – Part 5: Face image
data
Ñ ISO/DIS 12219-12, Interior air of road vehicles
– Part 12: Artificial leather made from PVC or
Polyurethane – Specification and methods for
the determination of fogging characteristics of
trim materials in the interior of automobiles
Ñ ISO/DIS 15708-3, Non-destructive testing –
Radiation methods for computed tomography
– Part 3: Operation and interpretation
Ñ ISO/DIS 16831, Non-destructive testing
– Ultrasonic testing – Characterization and
verification of ultrasonic equipment for the
determination of thickness
Ñ ISO/IEC DIS 29158, Automatic identification
and data capture techniques – Bar code symbol
quality test specification – Direct Part Mark
(DPM)
Ñ ISO/DIS 19078, Gas cylinders – Inspection of
the cylinder installation, and requalification of
high-pressure cylinders for the on-board storage
of natural gas as a fuel for automotive vehicles
Ñ ISO/DIS 19828, Welding for aerospace applica-
tions – Visual inspection of welds
Ñ ISO/DIS 21009-1, Cryogenic vessels – Static
vacuum-insulated vessels – Part 1: Design, fabri-
cation, inspection and tests
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