Ex-industrial PDA September 2004 The i.roc x10 with its comprehensive range of accessories not only contributes towards the rationalisation of everyday servicing work, it also increases the safety of the technician working in a dangerous environment
Ex certified loadcells fit for refuelling spacecraft August 2004 Space exploration has been mankind's dream for many years and over the last decades it has become more of a reality. The construction of the international space station (ISS) with its extensive laboratory ...
Digital camera for use in ex-zones March 2004 There are many applications for photography in the processing industry. For example, breaches of working safety regulations must be documented; original installation structures must be recorded before ...
Enunciators for safety related applications March 2004, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists The Omni16C Enunciator is suitable for use in safety related applications meeting Safety Integrity Level 1 in accordance with IEC 61508: 2000. Full details as to SSF and PFD Data are available from Omniflex ...
New temperature field transmitter offers improved safety March 2004, Endress+Hauser South Africa Instrumentation specialist Endress+Hauser has extended its range of temperature field transmitters with the introduction of the iTEMP TMT 162 transmitter with HART protocol for converting input signals ...
Fast, one handed tool for loop checks in Ex zones June 2003 Spescom MeasureGraph is offering to introduce the Fluke 707Ex intrinsically safe loop calibrator for use in explosion-endangered areas. The device Ex is certified in accordance with the new ATEX directive ...
New 2-wire loop isolator for IS applications June 2002, Turck Banner Southern Africa Turck now offers the MK33-221ExO-HLi/24 V d.c. - a 2-wire loop isolator designed to energise intrinsically safe 2-wire HART-compatible transducers in a hazardous area and transmit the 4 to 20 mA signal ...
Intrinsic safety interfacing becomes streamlined June 2001, Pepperl+Fuchs The Series 2000 intrinsic safety isolation system from P&F Products was designed to make IS interfacing as convenient as possible.
Some areas of the interfacing system where the more obvious advantages ...
HART programming solution for hazardous areas April 2001 A long-standing problem has been solved with the release of field instrumentation specialist Endress+Hauser's latest addition - the RN 221 N active barrier - to its family of system components.
Historically, ...
Intrinsic safety considerations March 2001, Extech Safety Systems This article concentrates on intrinsic safety, where there tends to be more emphasis on the requirements of electrical protection and earthing
Compact IS Process Interface systems for the processing industries March 2001, Phoenix Contact The Process Interface product line from Phoenix Contact provides a system that is both tried in practice and taking the future into consideration, allowing the efficiency of interface levels in various applications to be increased through a wide variety of functionalities
Universal trip amplifiers March 2001, Pepperl+Fuchs The new universal trip amplifiers in the Pepperl + Fuchs K-System monitor up to two independent limit values and their associated hysteresis. Two independent, adjustable relay outputs enable the limit ...
SABS certified two-wire IS transmitter for petrochem February 2001, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists The Omniterm two-wire transmitter manufactured by Omniflex has SABS certification for use as a barrier in hazardous area installations, effectively meaning that one product now does the job of two: a ...
Intrinsic safety considerations Feb 2000, Pepperl+Fuchs Causes of explosions
Three conditions must be present for an explosion to take place:
p Combustible material - gas, vapours, dust etc.
p Oxygen.
p Electrical or thermal energy - of sufficient value.
Intrinsic ...
Interface offers compact.intrinsically safe solutyion for process engineering Feb 2000, Phoenix Contact With the newly developed process interface product line from Phoenix Contact, which includes a base terminal block with a width of just 12,4 mm and codeable, pluggable and intrinsically safe isolation ...
Overvoltage protection of intrinsically safe circuits in hazarduos areas Feb 2000 The Blitzductor CT Type MD/Ex is an intrinsically safe, two-piece, surge protection device for use in 24 V circuits in hazardous areas. Locally manufactured by Surge Technology, it is designed to protect ...
New dual-function RTD transmitter for hazardous areas. Jan 2000 Turck now produces a new PT 100 RTD transmitter with intrinsically safe input circuits. The multimodul MK32 is a dual-function transmitter. It replaces the transmitter and barrier previously required ...
