Substance classification
According to current regulations – e.g. hazardous substances and hazard goods transport legislation, REACH and GHS – dangerous substances must be classified, labelled and registered. We can determine the physical-chemical parameters needed for those classification purposes in our own laboratory, thus supporting our customers in the event of registering and classifying new substances as well as in the event of reclassifications.
To ensure the safety of substances during their handling, use, storage, and transport, specific procedures for determining characteristic data are required according to the type of hazard and hazard potential, and are prescribed by the relevant regulations. We have tests from the following regulations ready for use at all times for this purpose:
| UN Transport Law (UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods)
| GHS (Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals),
| CLP (Regulation on Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures)
| UN Class 1 | Explosivity | Transport classification of hazardous substances → more |
| UN Test 1(b), 2(b) | Thermal sensitivity (Koenen test) → more | |
| UN Test 1(c), 2(c) | Time-pressure test → more | |
| UN Test 3(a) | Impact sensitivity (BAM drop hammer) → more |
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| UN Test 3(b) | Friction sensitivity (BAM friction apparatus) → more | |
| UN Test F.3 | BAM Trauzl Test → more | |
| UN Class 2 | Flammable aerosols | |
| UN Test | Foam aerosol: Flammability test | |
| UN Test | Spray aerosol: Flame jet and barrel testing | |
| UN Class 3 | Flammable liquids | |
| UN Test | Flash point → more | |
| UN Test L.2 | Sustained combustibility → more | |
| ISO 2137 | Penetrometer test → more | |
| UN Class 4.1 | Flammable solids | |
| UN Test N.1 | Burn rate | |
| UN Class 4.1 | Self-reactive substances | |
| UN Test C.1 | Pressure-time test → more | |
| UN Test C.2 | Deflagration ability in the open system → more | |
| UN Test E.1 | Thermal sensitivity (Koenen test) → more | |
| UN Test E.2 | Dutch pressure vessel test → more | |
| UN Test F.3 | BAM Trauzl Test → more | |
| UN Test H.2 | Determination of SADT from the adiabatic heat-pressure accumulation → more | |
| UN Test | Screening in the DSC → more | |
| UN Class 4.2 | Spontaneously combustible substances | |
| UN Test N.2 | Pyrophoric properties of solids | |
| UN Test N.3 | Pyrophoric properties of liquids | |
| UN Test N.4 | Isoperibolic measurement in 1 L or 15.625 mL wire basket (Bowes-Cameron-Cage test) | |
| UN Test | Screening in the Grewer furnace | |
| UN Test | Adiabatic measurements in the wire basket | |
| UN Test N.5 | Formation of flammable gases in contact with water | |
| UN Class 5.1 | Flammable (oxidizing) substances | |
| UN Test O.1 | Oxidizing solids → more | |
| UN Test O.2 | Oxidizing liquids → more | |
| UN Test O.3 | Oxidizing solids → more | |
| UN Class 8 | Corrosiveness to metals | |
| UN Test C.1 | Corrosive properties → more |