Automatic fire extinguishers and vehicle wheel thermal protectors ADR 2023: Updated Sect. 9.7.9
ID 17835 | 14.10.2022 / Complete document attached
Extended the safety requirements for vehicles relating to automatic fire extinguishing systems and thermal fire protection of the wheels already applied to vehicles of type EX / III, now also to vehicles of type FL, but only if intended for the transport of flammable gases and medium-high dangerous flammable liquids (Classification code including the letter F.).
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9.7.9 Additional safety requirements relating to FL and EX / III vehicles
Following comparison Sect 9.7.9 ADR 2021 / ADR 2023:
| ADR 2021 | ADR 2023 |
| PART 9 – REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION AND APPROVAL OF VEHICLES | |
| CAPITOLO 9.7 – Additional requirements relating to stationary tanks (tank vehicles), battery-vehicles and complete or completed vehicles used for the carriage of dangerous goods in demountable tanks of a capacity exceeding 1 m3 or in tank containers, cisterns | |
| 9.7.9. Additional safety requirements relating to FL and EX / III vehicles | 9.7.9. Additional safety requirements relating to FL and EX / III vehicles |
| 9.7.9.1. EX / III vehicles must be equipped with automatic fire extinguishers for the engine compartment. | 9.7.9.1. The following vehicles must be equipped with automatic fire extinguishing systems for the compartment in which the internal combustion engine driving the vehicle is located: (a) FL vehicles carrying compressed and liquefied flammable gases with a classification code including the letter F.; (b) FL vehicles carrying flammable liquids of packing group I or packing group II; e (c) vehicles EX/III. |
| 9.7.9.2 Load protection against tire fires must be ensured by metal heat shields | 9.7.9.2 The following vehicles must be equipped with thermal protection capable of mitigating the spread of a fire originating from all wheels: (a) FL vehicles carrying compressed and liquefied flammable gases with a classification code including the letter F.;(b) FL vehicles carrying flammable liquids of packing group I or packing group II; e (c) vehicles EX/III. NOTE: the purpose is to avoid the spread of the fire to the load, for example with thermal screens or other equivalent systems, is: (a) by direct propagation from the wheel to the load; o (b) by indirect propagation from the wheel to the cabin and then to the load. |
1.6.5 Transitional measures
The chapter 1.6.5 Transitional measures – 1.6.5 Vehicles, added 1.6.5.23, 1.6.5.24 e 1.6.5.25 which they establish 6 transitional years up 2029 for non-compliant vehicles:
1.6 Transitional measures
1.6.5 Vehicles
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1.6.5.23 EX/III vehicles first registered or put into service before 1 January 2029, in accordance with the provisions of the 9.7.9.2 applicable until 31 dicembre 2022, but which do not comply with the requirements of the 9.7.9.2 applicable from 1 January 2023, can continue to be used.
1.6.5.24 FL vehicles first registered or put into service before January 1st 2029, which do not comply with the requirements of the 9.7.9.1 applicable from 1 January 2023, can continue to be used.
1.6.5.25 FL vehicles first registered or put into service before January 1st 2029, which do not comply with the requirements of the 9.7.9.2 applicable from 1 January 2023, can continue to be used.
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