The new rules for shipping lithium batteries

It is reported that the United Nations "Sample Proposal about Dangerous Goods Regulations" (TDG) 20 edition revised regulations has been officially released in July 2017.TDG regulations is the United Nations in the 50 s of last century in order to standardize the international carriage of dangerous goods specially formulated for legal documents. It is also the basic file for dangerous goods regulations. Its technical revision will be shipping, air transport of dangerous goods, and other fields have a profound impact.

TDG and regulations lithium battery. There are two parts to make important revision:

(1) in 2 ~ 9 class of dangerous goods in 14 new UN number, including UN3536 as specified in the 9 kind of dangerous goods for installation in the freight of the lithium ion or lithium metal the battery group. Such batteries must be firmly fixed in the internal structure of cargo transport unit, without labeled with shipping marks or labels in the surface of the battery, but need to be labeled with the UN number and on both sides of the hang card.

(2) in the dangerous goods list, delete the five, added five and seven special provisions for the revision. In the special provisions of 388 sodium lithium batteries, batteries and other kinds of vehicles and equipment of the UN number made specific provision: lithium metal batteries, lithium ion batteries, sodium battery, etc., as a flammable gas or flammable liquid drive hybrid vehicles (UN3166), sodium lithium batteries, lithium ion batteries, batteries, etc., as a flammable gas or flammable liquid driving of pure electric vehicles (UN3171), equipment in the lithium battery (UN3091) and installed equipment in the lithium ion battery (UN3481).

In addition, the IATA (international air transport association) revised version of the rule of the dangerous goods transport 59, recently released revision content, including many modifications are also involved in the air transport of lithium batteries. It is understood that the new rules will be implemented from January 2018.The main content changes are as follows:

(1) increase the lithium battery isolation rules: limit the lithium ion battery (UN3480, PI965SectionIAorIB) and lithium batteries (UN3090 PI968SectionIAorIB) with explosives (Class1), the ammunition Division1.4 (S) (Division2.1), flammable liquids, combustible gas (Class3), flammable solid or their reaction substances or solid desensitization explosives (Division4.1) and oxidant (Division5.1) packaging in the same package.

(2) carried by passengers or the crew of the total number of portable electronic devices shall not exceed 15, backup battery is not more than 20, more than the amount must be approved by airlines.

(3) the provisions of the lithium battery tag (Lithium battery mark) the UN code in digital height not less than 12 mm

In addition, by the international maritime organization's international maritime dangerous goods regulations (IMDGCODE) - 16, 38, will begin from January 2018 to enforce in China. One to belong to SP310 low production, annual production capacity is less than 100, not through the test and standard manual "UN38.3 test, used to detect and transport of lithium batteries, increase the P910 packing guideline.

In order to ensure the transportation safety of lithium ion battery, battery companies to:

(1) timely attention to the new regulations on the new requirements of lithium-ion batteries, especially the new lithium battery UN number defined rules and the damaged/defective instruments lithium battery transport requirements.

(2) continue to focus on international maritime dangerous rules and international air freight dangerous gauge on the UN's new regulations import time, as soon as possible for the lithium battery transport packaging, documents, etc.

(3) strengthen the connections with the inspection and quarantine departments, the transport of goods, to understand the detailed rules for the implementation of various departments for the United Nations new rules, to ensure smooth shipping exports lithium batteries.

At present, about the lithium battery shipping industry standards, the vast majority is for air and sea transport, very few specification for lithium battery land transport. But in fact, the lithium ion battery fire accident arising out of the land transport and many, it is shocking. It is understood that in 2016, only domestic lithium battery transport accidents have occurred, though no casualties, but losses and influence still cannot be ignored.

Fire accident in recent years, lithium-ion battery production enterprises, to the competent department and industry association are heavily in lithium electricity enterprises in safety production management, such as China's chemical and physical power industry association has begun to establish industry groups for lithium battery production safety rules. It is not enough, however, in addition to the production, transportation also need attention. Due to the particularity of lithium electricity, more need to be based on its own technical characteristics of land transportation, especially on the transport of waste lithium ion battery, it can not only ensure the transportation safety, will also help to promote recycling of waste power lithium ion battery.

With the development of new energy vehicles, power battery is driven up, the scale of lithium ion batteries will be bigger, ahead of time to consider the safety of the lithium ion battery industry transportation problem, land transport safety practices also need to establish and ensure the safety of the lithium ion battery each link.

The page contains the contents of the machine translation.