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Key requirements of technical specifications for certification of green home appliances
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In today's increasingly tight energy, the environment continues to deteriorate, threatening the living environment of mankind. Global attention to environmental issues has risen to an unprecedented height, and low-carbon and energy-saving has become a topic of great concern to the country. Enhancing energy conservation and emission reduction, and realizing low-carbon development is an important way to build an ecological civilization. It represents energy-saving, environmentally friendly, low-carbon, non-polluting, recyclable, and intelligent green household appliances, which have gradually become the focus and direction of upgrading. According to the "Implementation Plan for Further Optimizing Supply to Promote the Stable Growth of Consumption and Promote the Formation of a Strong Domestic Market (2019)" issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments: Establish a diversified supply system for green products, enrich energy-saving and water-saving products, resource reproduction products, and environmental protection The production of green consumer goods such as products, green building materials, new energy vehicles, etc., encourage the creation of circulation entities such as green shopping malls, green restaurants, and green e-commerce, open up special areas for green product sales, and fully implement the implementation of the extended producer responsibility system. It can be seen that only by taking "green" as the vane for the development of future home appliance enterprises, and actively responding to the call for upgrading of green low-carbon home appliances, from R&D to manufacturing, from products to services, open up the entire green and low-carbon home appliance industry chain, with strict green and low-carbon Standards, a full range of green and low-carbon products, and satisfactory green and low-carbon services are the future development directions of the home appliance industry.
In the past, in the home appliance market, green was only a concept, and there was no unified standard and specification. Therefore, “green” home appliances on the market were mixed, good and bad. Many companies relied on self-promotion, and most of the products only had certain functions. It is known as a "green" product, which is suspected of being partial. The “Green Product Certification Technical Specifications” for household appliances, drafted and compiled by the China Quality Certification Center in conjunction with various key production enterprises and certification agencies, is clear in multiple dimensions from the main production requirements, basic product requirements, product life cycle evaluation, green evaluation indicators, etc. The technical requirements and certification requirements for green products have been revised to make "green" no longer ambiguous. On November 6, 2019, China Quality Certification Center launched some green product certification services for home appliances, and began to accept green products for room air conditioners, household refrigerators, household electric washing machines, multi-connected air conditioners (heat pump) units, and water chillers. Application for certification can provide enterprises with convenient channels for certification of green home appliances.
So, what indicators and requirements do green home appliances need to meet? Take room air conditioners as an example to analyze the four key requirements of green home appliance product certification technical specifications: main production requirements, basic product requirements, product life cycle evaluation, and green evaluation indicators .
The main body of production is the input of manufacturing resources (raw materials, energy, etc.) through the production link of the manufacturing process (including product design, processing and manufacturing, assembly and delivery, etc.). During the product manufacturing process, pollutants and waste are generated, and cause Environmental pollution, every link and factor involved may have an impact on the environment. Therefore, to produce green home appliances, we must start from the source. Manufacturers must prevent pollution and save resources, from environmental maintenance and economic feasibility From the perspective of product design, raw material extraction, product manufacturing, recycling and disposal after use, the pollution prevention requirements of the whole process. Therefore, the room air conditioner green product certification technical specification clearly requires the pollutant discharge status of the manufacturer, Should comply with relevant environmental protection laws and regulations, meet the requirements of national or local pollutant discharge standards, and have no major safety accidents and major environmental pollution incidents in the past three years; manufacturers are required to establish and operate in accordance with GB/T 24001 and GB/T 19001 respectively Environmental management system and quality management system; it is required that production enterprises should adopt advanced technologies and processes encouraged by the state, and shall not use technologies, processes, equipment and related materials restricted, eliminated or prohibited by the relevant departments of the state and local governments: (including the production process , Do not use hydrochlorofluorocarbon, trichloroethane, trichloroethylene, dichloroethylene, methylene chloride, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, bromopropane and other substances as cleaning solvents; electronic circuit boards and similar products production The welding in the process should use the lead-free welding process; the products that need to be filled with refrigerant during the production process should be equipped with and effectively use the refrigerant recovery device at the production site); the total amount of pollutants of the production enterprise should be controlled by the state and Local pollutant discharge total control indicators.
Green household appliances refer to household appliances that are high-efficiency and energy-saving and do not cause harm to the human body and the surrounding environment during use, and can be recycled after being scrapped. This requires products to be safe, low-carbon and environmentally friendly. Will pollute the environment. Therefore, in the green product certification technical specifications for room air conditioners, it is clearly required that product safety and electromagnetic compatibility should meet the requirements of GB 4706.1, GB 4706.32, GB 4343, and GB 17625.1; the content of restricted substances in the product should meet the requirements of GB/T26572 Requirements for the limits of restricted substances; product packaging/packaging materials shall not use hydrofluorochlorocarbons (HCFCs) as blowing agents; the total amount of heavy metals of lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium in packaging/packaging materials shall not exceed 100mg/kg , Product packaging should be recyclable packaging and labelled in accordance with GB/T 18455; products that need to be filled with refrigerants or foaming agents during the production process should not use ODP> 0 refrigerants or foaming agents.
The product life cycle is the overall life of the product, that is, the entire process from when a new product enters the market to being eliminated. The product has to go through the stages of development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. Life cycle assessment is the evaluation of products, production processes and activities. , The objective process of evaluating environmental pressure, which is to seek opportunities to utilize and improve environmental impacts through the use of energy and materials and the impact of waste discharge on the environment. Evaluation runs through the entire life cycle of products, processes and activities. Including raw material extraction and processing; product manufacturing, transportation and sales, product use, reuse and maintenance. Waste recycling and final waste disposal. Therefore, the technical specifications for certification of green products for room air conditioners specify that manufacturers should establish relevant procedures for implementing product life cycle assessments, carry out life cycle assessments in accordance with the requirements of GB/T 24040 and GB/T 24044, and conduct assessments based on the evaluation results. Continuous product improvement design.
The green evaluation of home appliances is a closed-loop system that evaluates the whole life cycle of home appliances. It mainly evaluates the resources, energy consumption, economic performance, etc. of the product at each stage of the life cycle and overall, and also includes the detachable performance and recyclability of the product design. Main factors such as performance, through the comprehensive evaluation of each index to determine whether the product is a green product and the level of greenness of the product, through the comprehensive evaluation and analysis process, you can also get information on which aspects of the product should be improved, and the product’s greenness evaluation It mainly includes environmental attributes, resource attributes, energy attributes, quality attributes and green management. There are many factors, including both qualitative and quantitative indicators. Resource attributes are clearly defined in the technical specifications for green product certification for room air conditioners. -Regeneration requirements: The evaluation value of the product's renewable utilization rate should meet the requirements of GB/T 32355.1-2015, and the product's recyclable label should meet the requirements of GB/T 23384-2009; Energy attributes-energy saving: product energy saving should meet the requirements of GB 12021.3- Level 1 energy efficiency requirements in 2010 or GB 21455-2013; quality attributes-intelligence and comfort: intelligence should meet the requirements of CQC1607-2016, and comfort should meet the requirements of CQC 1604-2015.
In the past, in the home appliance market, green was only a concept, and there was no unified standard and specification. Therefore, “green” home appliances on the market were mixed, good and bad. Many companies relied on self-promotion, and most of the products only had certain functions. It is known as a "green" product, which is suspected of being partial. The “Green Product Certification Technical Specifications” for household appliances, drafted and compiled by the China Quality Certification Center in conjunction with various key production enterprises and certification agencies, is clear in multiple dimensions from the main production requirements, basic product requirements, product life cycle evaluation, green evaluation indicators, etc. The technical requirements and certification requirements for green products have been revised to make "green" no longer ambiguous. On November 6, 2019, China Quality Certification Center launched some green product certification services for home appliances, and began to accept green products for room air conditioners, household refrigerators, household electric washing machines, multi-connected air conditioners (heat pump) units, and water chillers. Application for certification can provide enterprises with convenient channels for certification of green home appliances.
So, what indicators and requirements do green home appliances need to meet? Take room air conditioners as an example to analyze the four key requirements of green home appliance product certification technical specifications: main production requirements, basic product requirements, product life cycle evaluation, and green evaluation indicators .
Production subject requirements
The main body of production is the input of manufacturing resources (raw materials, energy, etc.) through the production link of the manufacturing process (including product design, processing and manufacturing, assembly and delivery, etc.). During the product manufacturing process, pollutants and waste are generated, and cause Environmental pollution, every link and factor involved may have an impact on the environment. Therefore, to produce green home appliances, we must start from the source. Manufacturers must prevent pollution and save resources, from environmental maintenance and economic feasibility From the perspective of product design, raw material extraction, product manufacturing, recycling and disposal after use, the pollution prevention requirements of the whole process. Therefore, the room air conditioner green product certification technical specification clearly requires the pollutant discharge status of the manufacturer, Should comply with relevant environmental protection laws and regulations, meet the requirements of national or local pollutant discharge standards, and have no major safety accidents and major environmental pollution incidents in the past three years; manufacturers are required to establish and operate in accordance with GB/T 24001 and GB/T 19001 respectively Environmental management system and quality management system; it is required that production enterprises should adopt advanced technologies and processes encouraged by the state, and shall not use technologies, processes, equipment and related materials restricted, eliminated or prohibited by the relevant departments of the state and local governments: (including the production process , Do not use hydrochlorofluorocarbon, trichloroethane, trichloroethylene, dichloroethylene, methylene chloride, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, bromopropane and other substances as cleaning solvents; electronic circuit boards and similar products production The welding in the process should use the lead-free welding process; the products that need to be filled with refrigerant during the production process should be equipped with and effectively use the refrigerant recovery device at the production site); the total amount of pollutants of the production enterprise should be controlled by the state and Local pollutant discharge total control indicators.
Basic product requirements
Green household appliances refer to household appliances that are high-efficiency and energy-saving and do not cause harm to the human body and the surrounding environment during use, and can be recycled after being scrapped. This requires products to be safe, low-carbon and environmentally friendly. Will pollute the environment. Therefore, in the green product certification technical specifications for room air conditioners, it is clearly required that product safety and electromagnetic compatibility should meet the requirements of GB 4706.1, GB 4706.32, GB 4343, and GB 17625.1; the content of restricted substances in the product should meet the requirements of GB/T26572 Requirements for the limits of restricted substances; product packaging/packaging materials shall not use hydrofluorochlorocarbons (HCFCs) as blowing agents; the total amount of heavy metals of lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium in packaging/packaging materials shall not exceed 100mg/kg , Product packaging should be recyclable packaging and labelled in accordance with GB/T 18455; products that need to be filled with refrigerants or foaming agents during the production process should not use ODP> 0 refrigerants or foaming agents.
Product life cycle assessment
The product life cycle is the overall life of the product, that is, the entire process from when a new product enters the market to being eliminated. The product has to go through the stages of development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. Life cycle assessment is the evaluation of products, production processes and activities. , The objective process of evaluating environmental pressure, which is to seek opportunities to utilize and improve environmental impacts through the use of energy and materials and the impact of waste discharge on the environment. Evaluation runs through the entire life cycle of products, processes and activities. Including raw material extraction and processing; product manufacturing, transportation and sales, product use, reuse and maintenance. Waste recycling and final waste disposal. Therefore, the technical specifications for certification of green products for room air conditioners specify that manufacturers should establish relevant procedures for implementing product life cycle assessments, carry out life cycle assessments in accordance with the requirements of GB/T 24040 and GB/T 24044, and conduct assessments based on the evaluation results. Continuous product improvement design.
Green evaluation index
The green evaluation of home appliances is a closed-loop system that evaluates the whole life cycle of home appliances. It mainly evaluates the resources, energy consumption, economic performance, etc. of the product at each stage of the life cycle and overall, and also includes the detachable performance and recyclability of the product design. Main factors such as performance, through the comprehensive evaluation of each index to determine whether the product is a green product and the level of greenness of the product, through the comprehensive evaluation and analysis process, you can also get information on which aspects of the product should be improved, and the product’s greenness evaluation It mainly includes environmental attributes, resource attributes, energy attributes, quality attributes and green management. There are many factors, including both qualitative and quantitative indicators. Resource attributes are clearly defined in the technical specifications for green product certification for room air conditioners. -Regeneration requirements: The evaluation value of the product's renewable utilization rate should meet the requirements of GB/T 32355.1-2015, and the product's recyclable label should meet the requirements of GB/T 23384-2009; Energy attributes-energy saving: product energy saving should meet the requirements of GB 12021.3- Level 1 energy efficiency requirements in 2010 or GB 21455-2013; quality attributes-intelligence and comfort: intelligence should meet the requirements of CQC1607-2016, and comfort should meet the requirements of CQC 1604-2015.
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