Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations

• (1) The following vacuum pumps:

  • (a) turbomolecular pumps having a flow-rate equal to or greater than 400 l/s;

  • (b) roots-type roughing pumps having a volumetric aspiration flow-rate greater than 200 m³/hr;

  • (c) bellows-sealed, scroll, dry pumps; and

  • (d) bellows-sealed, scroll, dry compressor pumps.

• (2) Vacuum pumps that are not specified in the Export Control List and that:

  • (a) are suitable for corrosive fluids; and

  • (b) have a maximum flow-rate greater than 5 m³/hr, measured under standard temperature and pressure conditions of 273 K (0°C) and 101.3 kPa, respectively; and

  • (c) are pumps in which all surfaces that may come into direct contact with fluids consist of stainless steel, aluminium alloy or a combination of the two.

Chemical process equipment including reaction vessels, reactors or agitators, storage tanks, containers or receivers, heat exchangers or condensers, distillation, or absorption columns, valves, pumps, piping, tubings, fittings, flanges, plates, coils.

Chromium and nickel alloys made or lined with more than 4% by weight of nickel and with more than 13% by weight of chromium that are not specified in the Export Control List.

Metal alloys, metal alloy powder and alloyed materials as follows:

Copper–beryllium alloys, with

• (a) thermal conductivity in excess of 100 W/m K at 25°C;

• (b) tensile strength in excess of 400 MPa; or

• (c) low cycle fatigue life of 10,000 cycles or more at 125°C at a maximum stress of 100 MPa.

• (1) High voltage direct current power supply units that are not specified in the Export Control List and

  • (a) are capable of continuously producing 10 kV or more over a period of 8 hours, with output power of 5 kW or more with or without sweeping; and

  • (b) have current or voltage stability better than 0.1% over a period of 4 hours.

• (2) Transformers with the specifications necessary for the electricity generated by the high voltage direct current power supply units specified in subsection (1).

Electrolytic cells that are not specified in the Export Control List that

• (a) are used for flourine production; and

• (b) have an output capacity greater than 100 g of fluorine per hour.

The following fibrous or filamentary materials or prepregs that are not specified in the Export Control List:

• (a) carbon or aramid fibrous or filamentary materials having either

  • (i) a specific modulus exceeding 10 x 10^{^6} m, or

  • (ii) a specific tensile strength exceeding 17 x 10^{^4} m;

• (b) glass fibrous or filamentary materials having either

  • (i) a specific modulus exceeding 3.18 x 10^{^6} m, or

  • (ii) a specific tensile strength exceeding 76.2 x 10^{^3} m; and

• (c) thermoset resin-impregnated continuous yarns, rovings, tows and tapes with a width of 15 mm or less (prepregs), made for carbon or glass fibrous or filamentary materials.

• (1) Filament winding machines and related equipment that

  • (a) have motions for positioning, wrapping and winding fibres coordinated and programmed in two or more axes;

  • (b) are specially designed to fabricate composite structures of laminates from “fibrous or filamentary materials; and

  • (c) are capable of winding cylindrical rotors of diameter between 75 and 400 mm and lengths of 300 mm or greater.

• (2) Coordinating and programming controls for filament winding machines specified in subsection (1).

• (3) Mandrels for filament winding machines specified in subsection (1).

Flow-forming machines and/or spin-forming machines capable of flow-forming functions and mandrels, as follows:

• (a) machines that have three or more rollers and that can be equipped with numerical control units or a computer control.

• (b) rotor-forming mandrels designed to form cylindrical rotors with an inside diameter between 75 and 400 mm.

• (1) Frequency changers that

  • (a) have multiphase frequency output;

  • (b) are capable of providing power of 40 W or greater;

  • (c) are capable of operating anywhere between 600 and 2000 Hz; and

  • (d) have frequency control less than 0.2%.

• (2) Specially designed software for these frequency changers.

Seals and gaskets made of

• (a) copolymers of vinylidene fluoride having 75% or more beta crystalline structure without stretching;

• (b) fluorinated polyimides containing 10% by weight or more of combined fluorine;

• (c) fluorinated phosphazene elastomers containing 30% by weight or more of combined fluorine;

• (d) polychlorotrifluoroethylene (PCTFE);

• (e) Viton or other fluoro-elastomers; or

• (f) polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE).

Heat exchangers or condensers that are not specified in the Export Control List with a heat transfer surface area greater than 0.05 m² and less than 30 m², if all surfaces that may come into direct contact with fluids consist of

• (a) alloys having, by weight:

  • (i) more than 25% nickel, and

  • (ii) more than 20% chromium;

• (b) fluoropolymers;

• (c) glass (including vitrified or enamelled coatings or glass lining);

• (d) graphite or carbon graphite;

• (e) nickel or alloys with more than 40% nickel by weight;

• (f) tantalum or tantalum alloys;

• (g) titanium or titanium alloys;

• (h) zirconium or zirconium alloys;

• (i) silicon carbide;

• (j) titanium carbide;

• (k) stainless steel; or

• (l) a combination of the materials specified in paragraphs (a) to (k).

The following balancing machines and related equipment:

• (a) balancing machines that are

  • (i) not designed or modified for dental or other medical equipment,

  • (ii) not capable of balancing rotors or assemblies which have a mass greater than 3 kg,

  • (iii) capable of balancing rotors or assemblies at speeds greater than 12 500 rpm,

  • (iv) capable of correcting imbalance in two planes or more, and

  • (v) capable of balancing to a residual specific imbalance of 0.2 g mm/kg of rotor mass; and

• (b) indicator heads usable with machines specified in paragraph (a).

Multiple-seal and seal-less pumps that are not specified in the Export Control List

• (a) that are suitable for corrosive fluids; and

• (b) that have a maximum flow-rate greater than 0.1 m³/hr; and

• (c) in which all surfaces that may come into direct contact with fluids consist of

  • (i) stainless steel,

  • (ii) aluminium alloy, or

  • (iii) a combination of the materials specified in subparagraphs (i) and (ii).

The following mass spectrometers that are not specified in the Export Control List that are capable of measuring ions of 200 atomic mass units or more and have a resolution of better than 2 parts in 200:

• (a) inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (ICP/MS);

• (b) glow discharge mass spectrometers (GDMS);

• (c) thermal ionization mass spectrometers (TIMS);

• (d) electron bombardment mass spectrometers with a source chamber constructed from, lined with or plated with, materials resistant to corrosion by UF6;

• (e) molecular beam mass spectrometers with either

  • (i) a source chamber constructed from, lined with or plated with, stainless steel or molybdenum and equipped with a cold trap capable of cooling to 193 K (-80°C) or less, or

  • (ii) a source chamber constructed from, lined with or plated with, materials resistant to corrosion by UF₆; and

• (f) mass spectrometers equipped with a microfluorination ion source usable with actinides or actinide fluorides.

Includes but is not limited to the following equipment:

• (a) plasma generators (high frequency arc jet) usable for obtaining sputtered or spherical metallic powders; and

• (b) electroburst equipment usable for obtaining sputtered or spherical metallic powders.

Permanent magnetic materials in the shape of rings that

• (a) have an outside diameter between 30 mm and 90 mm; and

• (b) are made of aluminium-nickel-cobalt, ferrites, samarium-cobalt, or neodymium-iron-boron.

Sintered metal filters made of

• (a) nickel; or

• (b) nickel alloy with a nickel content of 40% or more by weight.

• (1) Thermal spraying systems or equipment that

  • (a) are designed or modified to coat substrates with any of the following:

    • (i) alloys having, by weight

      • (A) more than 25% nickel, and

      • (B) more than 20% chromium,

    • (ii) fluoropolymers,

    • (iii) glass (including vitrified or enamelled coatings or glass lining),

    • (iv) graphite or carbon graphite,

    • (v) nickel or alloys with more than 40% nickel by weight,

    • (vi) tantalum or tantalum alloys,

    • (vii) titanium or titanium alloys,

    • (viii) zirconium or zirconium alloys,

    • (ix) silicon carbide,

    • (x) titanium carbide,

    • (xi) stainless steel,

    • (xii) ceramics, and

    • (xiii) a combination of the materials specified in paragraphs (a) to (k); and

  • (b) use any of the following techniques:

    • (i) wire arc spray,

    • (ii) flame spray (wire or powder),

    • (iii) atmospheric and vacuum plasma spray,

    • (iv) high velocity oxy fuel,

    • (v) cold spray,

    • (vi) warm spray, and

    • (vii) detonation.

• (2) Specially designed software and technology for that thermal spraying systems or equipment.

The following vibration test systems and equipment that are not specified in the Export Control List:

• (a) vibration test systems employing feedback or closed loop techniques and incorporating a digital controller, capable of vibrating a system at an acceleration equal to or greater than 10 g rms between 20 Hz and 2 kHz and imparting forces equal to or greater than 50 kN, measured bare table;

• (b) digital controllers, combined with vibration test software, with a real-time bandwidth greater than 5 kHz usable with vibration test systems specified in paragraph (a);

• (c) vibration thrusters (shaker units), with or without associated amplifiers, capable of imparting a force equal to or greater than 50 kN, measured bare table, and usable in vibration test systems specified in paragraph (a);

• (d) test piece support structures and electronic units usable with multiple shaker units in a system capable of providing an effective combined force of 50 kN or greater, measured bare table, and usable in vibration systems specified in paragraph (a); and

• (e) components for those vibration test systems and equipment.