"This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) delineates the minimum operational requirements that will ensure that perishable cargoes in insulated standard airborne containers are kept in prime condition during the ground handling and air transportation cycle for a maximum period of 36 h. The term ""perishable cargo"" refers@ for example@ to dairy produce@ fruit@ vegetables@ flowers@ frozen foods@ meat@ fish@ etc.@ requiring maintenance of specific temperature ranges during door-to-door transportation involving air transport. The overall temperature range for perishable commodities may be anywhere between +20 ??(+68 ?? and -25 ??(-13 ?? during the transport cycle. During this period of door-to-door transportation@ the container may be subjected to outside ambient temperature with extremes of +45 ??(+113 ?? and -50 ??(-58 ?? and a relative humidity of up to 100%. For design purposes - and to allow for temperature drops and rises occurring between origin and destination in the air transport cycle - the container shall perform its protective function within an outside temperature variation@ ??T@ of 53 units of temperature interval Celsius (95 units of temperature interval Fahrenheit) within the range of temperature exposure extremes stated in 1.4. NOTE 1: It should be noted that throughout this document environmental (atmospheric) temperatures are expressed in commercial values of degrees Celsius/Fahrenheit (???? and technical (scientific) temperatures are expressed in kelvin (K). A temperature conversion table is given for convenience in Appendix C."
SAE ARP1523B-2000 history
2014SAE ARP1523C-2014 Air Mode Insulated Containers - Thermal Efficiency Requirements
2008SAE ARP1523B-2008 Air Mode Insulated Containers - Thermal Efficiency Requirements