Mandatory Leakage Detection Systems A key requirement is the installation and regular verification of leakage detection systems in all applications using fluorinated gases or hydrocarbon...
Levels of Ex Inspection The Ex standards define different inspection grades.
General Considerations on Ex Hazardous Area Inspections Legal/Regulatory: Required by ATEX 1999/92/EC (ATEX Workplace Directive) and IEC 60079-17 (inspection and maintenance of Ex installations)....
CapEx / OpEx / explosion protection Both terms (CapEx, OpEx) well we know, and apply. Relations to Ex compliance engineering? Short summary to grab your attention towards.
Owning a Car vs. Explosion Protection (Ex) My best ever Ex.ample for about Ex compliance engineering is about ownership of a CAR.
Hazard and Risk Valid terms related to Ex compliance engineering. Trendy words, each and every person is familiar within process safety related industries. Besides all specially important to the...
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Imagine this scenario: It's a typical workday at your facility. Machines are humming, employees are focused, and everything seems normal. Suddenly, a minor equipment malfunction releases a...
Hazardous area industries are classified based on the presence of potentially explosive atmospheres due to gases, vapors, dusts, or hybrid mixtures. Here to deal with Ex compliance is a must have and...
Skid or machine?
Recently published - April 2024 - link: https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/59156
In some countries, regions and the facility itself there are directives, laws, guidelines, guidances, standards, whitepapers, inhouse policies which shall address Ex compliance as a mandatory step.
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Normal operation refers to the standard, expected, and safe functioning of machinery, equipment, or a facility under usual conditions. This involves:
The employer operator shall order in writing the operation of a hazardous facility, workplace, work equipment, technology (hereinafter referred to as occupational safety commissioning).
EPD stands for explosion protection documentation.
The Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR) is a critical component in the management of process safety. And shall be trated the same for explosion protection as well.
What is a skid? A pump - clutch - motor combo is a(n) …?
Hazardous Area Industries do have various level of regulations, standardizations, directives and schemes related. All in charge have to be the most up-to-date.
Even if you are not an HA industry player, your daily life is full with Ex related issues: petrol stations, sugar, kakao powder, but wastewater network too may explode, if one does not give the minimum respect.