This European Standard specifies the requirements, sampling, test methods and conditions of delivery for copper tubes.
It is applicable to seamless round copper tubes having an outside diameter from 8 mm up to and including 54 mm for pipeline systems for distributing the following medical gases intended to be used at operating pressures up to 2 000 kPa and for systems under vacuum:
- oxygen, nitrous oxide, nitrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, xenon;
- air for breathing;
- specific mixtures of these above mentioned gases;
- air for driving surgical tools;
- anaesthetic gases and vapours;
- vacuum.