Item | Description |
1. | Floor-mounted fume hoods (walk-in style) with a minimum nominal width of 2.5 meters. |
2. | Full face-mask air-purifying and air-supplying respirators. |
3. | Class II biosafety cabinets and glove boxes. |
4. | Batch centrifuges with a rotor capacity of 4 L or greater, usable with biological materials. |
5. | Fermenters with an internal volume of 10 L – 20 L, usable with biological materials. |
6. | Conventional or turbulent air-flow clean-air rooms and self-contained fan-HEPA filter units that may be used for P3 or P4 (BSL 3, BSL 4, L3, L4) containment facilities. |
7. | Reaction vessels or reactors, with or without agitators, with total internal (geometric) volume greater than 0.1 m³ (100 l) and less than 20 m³ (20000 l). |
8. | Agitators for use in reaction vessels or reactors specified in item 7. |
9. | Impellers, blades or shafts designed for agitators specified in item 8. |
10. | Heat exchangers or condensers with a heat transfer surface area of greater than 0.15 m², and less than 20 m². |
11. | Tubes, plates, coils or blocks (cores) designed for heat exchangers or condensers specified in item 10. |
12. | Multiple-seal, single seal and seal-less pumps with manufacturer's specified maximum flow-rate greater than 0.6 m3/h. |
13. | Valves with nominal sizes greater than 1.0 cm |
14. | Casings (valve bodies) or preformed casing liners designed for valves specified in item 13. Technical note: The 'nominal size' is defined as the smaller of the inlet and outlet port diameters. |
15. | Storage tanks, containers or receivers with a total internal (geometric) volume greater than 0.1 m³ (100 l). |
16. | Distillation or absorption columns of internal diameter greater than 0.1 m. |
17. | Liquid distributors, vapour distributors or liquid collectors designed for distillation or absorption columns specified in item 16. |
18. | Vacuum pumps with manufacturer's specified maximum flow-rate greater than 5 m³/h (under standard temperature (273 K (0o C)) and pressure (101.3 kPa) conditions), in which all surfaces that come into direct contact with the chemical(s) being processed are made from any of the following materials: (a) nickel or alloys with more than 40% nickel by weight; (b) alloys with more than 25% nickel and 20% chromium by weight; (c) fluoropolymers (polymeric or elastomeric materials with more than 35% fluorine by weight); (d) glass or glass-lined (including vitrified or enamelled coating); (e) graphite or carbon-graphite; (f) tantalum or tantalum alloys; (g) titanium or titanium alloys; (h) zirconium or zirconium alloys; (i) ceramics; (j) ferrosilicon (high silicon iron alloys); or (k) niobium (columbium) or niobium alloys. Technical note: carbon-graphite is a composition consisting of amorphous carbon and graphite, in which the graphite content is eight percent or more by weight. |
19. | Casings (pump bodies), preformed casing liners, impellers, rotors or jet pump nozzles designed for vacuum pumps specified in item 18. |
20. | Laboratory equipment, including parts and accessories for such equipment, for the analysis or detection, destructive or non-destructive, of chemical substances. |