GB/T 16411-2023Universal test methods of gas burning appliances for domestic use (English PDF)

Foreword

This document was issued on 6 August 2023 by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China, and has been in force since 1 March 2024.

It replaces GB/T 16411-2008.

Classification: ICS 91.140, CCS P45.

1 Scope

GB/T 16411-2023 is the Chinese national standard that gives the universal test methods for domestic gas burning appliances. It is the method standard the product standards for gas appliances refer to, so it is the document a testing laboratory works to when it has to establish how an appliance performs: the test conditions, the reference gases and the measurements that a gas water heater, a room heater, a cooking appliance or an oven has to be put through. It was issued on 6 August 2023 by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Standardization Administration, and has been in force since 1 March 2024, replacing GB/T 16411-2008. Note on this page: the clause text of the 2023 edition is not yet in circulation in English - it has not been translated by any of the sources - so this page carries only the official record of the edition. The complete document is supplied in full English translation on order.

About this edition

GB/T 16411-2023 is the current edition. It was issued on 6 August 2023 and has been in force since 1 March 2024, replacing GB/T 16411-2008.

GB/T 16411-2008 has been superseded: a specification that still cites it is citing a withdrawn edition.

The interval between issue and effect is the transition period. It exists so that producers, laboratories and buyers can requalify products, revise procedures and use up documentation before the new text becomes the one that applies. The date on this page is the official one from the record of the Standardization Administration.

Classification and status

GB/T 16411-2023 is classified under ICS 91.140, in the field of construction materials and building. ICS is the International Classification for Standards, the same scheme used by ISO and by the national bodies of most countries, which is what allows a Chinese standard to be placed beside its foreign counterparts on subject rather than on number.

Its Chinese Standard Classification code is CCS P45. CCS is the domestic scheme, a letter for the sector and two digits for the subject within it, and it is the code by which the standard is filed and searched in China.

The GB/T prefix marks a recommended national standard. It is not, in itself, law: it becomes binding when a contract names it, when a regulation or a mandatory standard refers to it, or when a producer declares conformity with it. In practice that covers most of the cases in which it will be read — a purchase specification, an inspection agreement or a certification scheme.

How a Chinese national standard is set out

Chinese national standards are drafted to the rules of GB/T 1.1, which fixes the order in which a standard is set out. The document opens with a foreword recording the issuing bodies, the relationship to any previous edition and the technical committee responsible for it. Clause 1 is the scope. Clause 2 lists the normative references — the other standards that have to be applied together with this one, and without which its requirements cannot be met. Clause 3 gives the terms and definitions. The technical clauses follow: the requirements themselves, the test or measurement methods by which conformity is established, the inspection rules that say how a lot is sampled and judged, and, for a product standard, the provisions on marking, packaging, transport and storage. Annexes, normative or informative, come last.

GB/T 16411-2023 runs to 29 pages in the English translation. What is delivered is the complete document in that order: every clause, every table, every figure and every annex of the Chinese original, with the same numbering, so that a reference to a clause number in a contract or a test report points to the same place in both languages.