Standard for Generators and Portable Powered Equipment
Scope:
Scope
This standard applies to the design, installation, operation, maintenance, and testing of fuel fired engines, which supply output shaft power to generators, pumps, compressors, fans, or other like equipment. This standard applies to mobile generator sets that are designed to be moved from site to site. Typical applications include, but are not limited to, generator sets intended to be deployable during an emergency, used during the construction phase of a building or generator sets used temporarily during the repair of a building main generator set(s).
This standard will include requirements for the following:
- mobile conveyance device
-Special requirements for trailers
- Fuel systems, including tank, piping, filling, venting, leak detection
- Electrical requirements
- Exhaust and ventilation
-Enclosures
- Mounting, support and foundations (trailer and jobsite)
- Accessories
-Tamper resistance
This standard will NOT cover the following:
- Vehicles qualified under the Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations
- On highway equipment
-Off highway equipment
-Automotive and marine vehicles
- Aircrafts
- Mobile generator sets that were originally designed to be mobile and then become permanently connected to a building
- Mobile turbines that could be installed on a trailer
This standard will not include environmental requirements other than spill containment and prevention.
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