04 conditions to be granted certificate of eligibility of Liquefied Petroleum Gas bottle testing in Vietnam

04 conditions to be granted certificate of eligibility of Liquefied Petroleum Gas bottle testing in Vietnam (Internet image)

Specifically, Article 43 of Circular 41/2011/TT-BCT stipulates 04 conditions to be granted certificate of eligibility of liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) bottle testing in Vietnam including

(1) It must have fully safety regulations, process of testing bottles containing LPG having been approved by leaders as prescribed.

(2) Having fully necessary equipment to service for testing, specifying:

- Equipment to recapture LPG remained in bottle;

- Equipment to measure thickness of metal, equipment for ultrasound of weld;

- Equipment to assembly and disassembly valves of bottle;

- Equipment to test durability, tightness;

- Equipment to remove water;

- Equipment for checking inside;

- Equipment to clean surface;

- Scales;

- Equipment for stamp;

- The vacuum-sucking equipment. 

All above equipments must have technical parameters and output in conformity with the testing output of stations.

(3) Having fully necessary human resource to service for testing.

The officers directly testing bottles must be trained on professional and safe skills in the bottle testing and have working experiences for at least 2 years.

(4) Having fully plans on fire prevention and fighting having been approved, devices of fire prevention and fighting as prescribed. 

In addition, the LPG-bottle testing stations in Vietnam must meet the following conditions:

- The LPG-bottle testing stations must have legal status and be granted certificate of eligibility of testing bottles containing LPG as prescribed in point c, clause 1, Article 56 of the Decree 107/2009/ND-CP.

- The LPG-bottle testing stations must meet conditions specified in Article 43 of this Circular.

- Procedures for granting certificate of eligibility of testing bottles are implemented as prescribed in Article 48 of this Circular.

- The LPG-bottle testing stations of LPG-trading establishments, which own LPG-bottles, may test periodically only with bottles containing LPG belong to property of establishments.

At the same time, the testing of LPG-bottles in Vietnammust ensure the following:

- Periodically testing LPG bottles as prescribed by manufacturers but the cycle not exceed 5 years compared to the nearest testing time. For bottles have been used over 20 years, time of periodically testing not exceed 2 years.

- It is required to make clean the surface of bottles when testing periodically. It is required to re-paint and replace new valves for bottles when testing periodically.

- It is requir

More details can be found in Circular 41/2011/TT-BCT, which comes into force from February 1, 2012.

Thuy Tram

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