DIN EN 15234-6:2012-04

This European Standard defines the procedures to fulfill the quality requirements (quality control) and describes measures to ensure adequate confidence that the non-woody pellet specification described in EN 14961-6 is fulfilled (quality assurance). This European Standard covers the whole production and delivery chain, from purchasing of raw materials to point of delivery to the end-user. This European standard covers only quality assurance for non-woody pellets produced from the non-woody biomasses stated in EN 14961-1, Table 1 and EN 14961-6. The overall aim of this European Standard is to ensure the non-woody pellet quality through the whole supply chain, from the origin to the delivery of the solid biofuel and provide adequate confidence that specified quality requirements are fulfilled. The objective of this European Standard is to serve as a tool to enable the efficient trading of non-woody pellets. Thereby the end-user can find a pellet that corresponds to its needs and the producer/supplier can produce a pellet with defined and consistent properties and describe the pellet to the customers. Quality assurance measures should establish confidence in the pellet through systems that are simple to operate and do not cause undue bureaucracy. The document EN 15234-6:2012 has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 335 "Solid biofuels", the secretariat of which is held by SIS (Sweden). The responsible German committee is Working Committee NA 062-05-82 AA "Feste Biobrennstoffe" ("Solid biofuels") at the Materials Testing Standards Committee (NMP) at DIN.