Ex Knowledge
Plain-English guides to working safely in hazardous areas
Choosing equipment for a hazardous area starts with a few questions: what zone is it, what gas or dust is present, and what does the certificate on the device actually allow?
These guides answer them.
Guides
- What is intrinsic safety?
- How a device can be made unable to ignite gas.
- Hazardous area zones.
- Zones 0, 1 and 2 for gas, and 20, 21 and 22 for dust.
- ATEX, IECEx and PESO.
- Which approval you need, and where.
- Reading an Ex marking.
- What a string like II 2G Ex ib IIC T4 Gb tells you.
Content pending. ManDeo: guides written after launch (P2).
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