Site operators sometimes ask about how to make their equipment intrinsically safe. For example, one firm inquired about how to make its 480V motors intrinsically safe. Such a lack of understanding of ...

North American companies are beginning to move toward intrinsically-safe systems, already well established in Europe, that use currents and voltages too low to spark an explosion in a hazardous ...

If you’re responsible for overseeing operations in high-risk industries like oil and gas, mining, or chemical manufacturing, you know the threat of accidents in explosive atmospheres is ever-present.

While hazardous conditions are a fact of life in industrial plants, end users, safety organizations and automation suppliers are doing everything they can to ensure products are explosion-proof, ...

Last month, we reviewed the origins of the need for and the standards surrounding electrical safety ratings as well as some of the terminology related to the topic. This month, we delve into design ...

The IECEx is a certification system which verifies compliance with IEC international standards relating to equipment for use in explosive atmospheres. The safety requirement for equipment under IECEx ...

One of the most challenging tasks design engineers can face is designing measurement or control systems to operate safely in hazardous environments. These environments may contain flammable or ...

Midland Manufacturing Com- pany, manufacturers of vapor re- covery and alarm systems for the marine industry, announced that its full line of alarm systems has been certified as intrinsically safe in ...

Where can you install intrinsically safe equipment? Suppose you bought intrinsically safe equipment for a Class II, Division 1 location. That project turned out so well that you want to buy more of ...