This CEN Technical Report gives guidance on the application of EN 14181:2004. It describes:
- the general structure of the methods specified in EN 14181:2004;
- the responsibilities of plant operators and testing laboratories regarding QAL and AST tests;
- provision of input data to QAL1;
- cluster calibration at low and high values;
- use of reference materials in QAL2;
- treatment of outliers;
- extension of the valid calibration range;
- several calibration functions;
- peripheral AMS;
- influence of SRM on the variability;
- kV values missing in EN 14181;
- provision of input data to QAL3;
- different QAL3 methods;
- detailed examples for the different QAL3 methods;
- AST performance;
- validation of calculations.
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Scope
This CEN Technical Report gives guidance on the application of EN 14181:2004. It describes:
- the general structure of the methods specified in EN 14181:2004;
- the responsibilities of plant operators and testing laboratories regarding QAL and AST tests;
- provision of input data to QAL1;
- cluster calibration at low and high values;
- use of reference materials in QAL2;
- treatment of outliers;
- extension of the valid calibration range;
- several calibration functions;
- peripheral AMS;
- influence of SRM on the variability;
- kV values missing in EN 14181;
- provision of input data to QAL3;
- different QAL3 methods;
- detailed examples for the different QAL3 methods;
- AST performance;
- validation of calculations.
