[PSES] EU Pressure Equipment Requirements

Colleagues, I'm trying to understand the applicability of the Simple Pressure Vessel Directive 2009/105/EC and the Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/CE. For a compressor/tank system (max pressure around 70 PSI/4.8 bar) that is entirely contained with a machine, I believe the Simple Pressure

Re: [PSES] EU Pressure Equipment Requirements

Jim, The short answer is that if vessels contain only air or nitrogen and are CE marked as Simple Pressure Vessels, and you have no hydraulic accumulators, then you can ignore the PED. The longer answer is that (in theory at least) you need to identify each piece of pressure equipment and