BS EN 13348:2008

Copper and copper alloys. Seamless, round copper tubes for medical gases or vacuum. | Status: Revised, Superseded, Withdrawn

1 Scope This European Standard specifies the requirements, sampling, test methods and conditions of delivery for copper tubes. It is applicable to seamless round copper tubes having an outside diameter from 6 mm up to and including 133 mm for pipeline systems under vacuum or for distributing the following medical gases intended to be used at operating pressures up to 2 000 kPa:

• — oxygen, nitrous oxide, nitrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, xenon;
• — medical air;
• — specific mixtures of these above mentioned gases;
• — air for driving surgical tools;
• — anaesthetic gases and vapours.