IS 11241 : 2024 Portable Liquefied Petroleum Gas Appliances Operating at Vapour Pressure - Specification
| ICS 75.160.30; 97.040.20 | MED 23 |
1 SCOPE
1.1 This standard specifies the construction and performance characteristics related to safety and rational use of energy of portable liquefied petroleum gas appliances operating at vapour pressure within the gas cartridge or gas cylinder, excepting those where the gas cartridge is inserted horizontally in the chassis.
NOTE - These appliances are referred to in the body of the text as ‘appliance’.
1.2 This standard applies to various types of portable liquefied petroleum gas appliances operating at vapour pressure and designed to be used with ISI marked cartridges up to 500 ml or gas cylinders up to 13 litre water capacity.
1.3 This standard covers appliances for outdoor or in well ventilated areas only. For example, the following types of appliances are covered:
a) Cooking appliances (stoves, grills, barbecues etc);
b) Lighting appliances;
c) Heating appliances:
1) Space heaters, and
2) Gas iron.
This standard only applies to appliances with a maximum heat input of up to 3 kW for outdoor use only [Applicable for item
c) 1) and c) 2)].
d) Blowtorches - This document only applies to blow torches without a flexible hose.
e) Laboratory burners - The requirements apply to these appliances or their functional sections whether or not the latter are independent or incorporated into an assembly.
Appliances covered by this standard are not connected to a flue for the discharge of products of combustion and are not connected to the mains electricity supply.
This standard covers neither appliance supplied with LPG in the liquid phase nor those incorporating a fixed gas reservoir which may or may not be refiled by the user.
It does not apply to gas lighters like cigarette lighters, cigar lighters and pipe lighters. This standard does not apply to gas appliances operating with a valve cartridge which is horizontally integrated into the chassis of the appliances also called ‘flat portable gas stove’.
Requirements for rational use of energy have been included for stove burners.
However, such requirements have not been included for the other types of appliances because:
a) For grills and barbecues, this is a type of cooking which is achieved by various means such as radiant elements, in addition, this type of cooking varies according to the type of food and region where the appliance is used;
b) For lighting appliances, the consumption is insignificant because these appliances have a very low rate and are used only for a short time;
c) For heating appliance, all the heat produced is discharged into the environment; and
d) For tools such as blow torches which are not professional tools in regular use, the gas consumption depends very much on the way it is used.
2 REFERENCES
The standards listed in Annex A contain provisions which through reference in this text, constitute provision of this standard. At the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject to revision and parties to agreements based on this standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent edition of these standards:
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