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ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS IN HAZARDOUS AREAS
Electrical Installations in Hazardous Areas
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By
Alan McMillan, Eur Ing Alan McMillan CEng FIEE FInst MC, Co Founder of Sira Test & Certification Ltd and the Sira Certification Service

Description
The Health and Safety at Work Act, together with current and impending EU Directives, obliges those responsible for hazardous areas, those who work in such areas and those who supply equipment for use in such areas to demonstrate that they have taken all necessary and reasonable steps to prevent fires and explosions. This book addresses these issues, seeks to explain the ever increasing complexity of standards and codes pertaining to this field and describes their method of application and the application of other procedures to assist those involved.

Audience
Electrical, mechanical, process & plant engineers & managers and safety professionals & managers operating in the oil, chemical, pharmaceutical & petrochemical industries and those industries using oil and chemical products such as the coating, printing and paint industries.

Contents
Introduction; Area classification; Area classification practice for gases, vapours and mists in freely ventilated situations; Calculation of release rates and the extents of hazardous areas; Area classification practice for gases, vapours and mists in areas which are not freely ventilated; Area classification practice for dusts; Design philosophy for electrical apparatus for explosive atmospheres; General requirements for explosion protected apparatus (gas, vapour and mist risks); Apparatus using protection concepts encapsulation 'm', oil immersion 'o' and powder filling 'q'; Apparatus using protection concept flameproof enclosure 'd'; Apparatus using protection concept pressurization 'p'; Apparatus using protection concept increased safety 'e'; Apparatus and systems using protection concept intrinsic safety 'i'; Apparatus using protection concept 'N' ('n'); Protection concepts for apparatus for dust risks; Other methods of protection and future apparatus requirements; Selection of power supply, apparatus and interconnecting cabling system for both gas/vapour/mist risks and dust risks; Installations in explosive atmospheres of gas, vapour, mist and dust; Installation of pressurized apparatus and other uses of the pressurization technique; Installation of intrinsically safe apparatus/associated apparatus and intrinsically safe systems 'i'; Documentation, inspection, test and maintenance of explosion protected apparatus, systems and installations; Radio frequency radiation and static electricity.

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 656 pages, publication date: MAY-1998
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-3768-8
ISBN-10: 0-7506-3768-4
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN

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