Hazardous Area Electrical Design & installation
HAZARDOUS AREA ELECTRICAL DESIGN AND INSTALLATION
Thanks to our extensive knowledge and experience of designing electrical installations, including intrinsically safe systems, in hazardous areas, we understand the cost implications that can come with an over engineered installation.
We are also fully aware of the problems than can become apparent when a designer is primarily focusing on the hazardous area risk posed to the electrical installation, whilst neglecting the environmental conditions that the equipment may be subjected to an annual basis.
All our designs are implemented using only the highest quality of hazardous area electrical equipment that has been proven not only to mitigate against the risk of the potentially hazardous area, but also to provide years of protection against no matter what the environmental conditions the equipment will be subjected to.
Or installations are designed to our customers specific individual requirements, allowing you to minimize maintenance costs, maximize efficiency and reduce the time and effort spent on future periodic inspections.
- Bespoke design solutions incorporating the required equipment for certain areas of classification or EPL
- Full public liability insurance for working in potentially explosive environments
- Thorough assessment of your existing equipment
Intrinsically safe Descriptive System Documentation (DSD), verification and development services
You may running an operation that appears to be intrinsically safe, you may have the correct looking Intrinsically safe equipment installed, for example Zener barriers, Galvanic isolators and intrinsically safe field devices. However, are you sure you truly have achieved a fully compliant intrinsically safe installation? Do you have the required intrinsically safe descriptive system documentation required to demonstrate the intrinsically safe characteristics of your installation?
More importantly are you confident that you could prove to any external auditors that you have achieved an Intrinsically safe installation! If the answer is either; no, in some cases, or I think so, give us a call and we can help to ensure you have the correct equipment installed, to the correct parameters and that can be demonstrated in the form of an approved descriptive system document that we can develop on your behalf.
We will formally record that the installation that has been selected to operate in your specific hazardous areas as suitable and safe for continued operation.
We also offer design packages to help customers at a design stage, ensuring that any potential Intrinsically safe installations achieve full compliance at the concept stage, after all intrinsic safety is an Ex protection based upon a design rather than solely relying on the mechanical properties of a piece of electrical equipment. Once a design is verified as intrinsically safe it is then up to the installers of the I.S installation to follow the I.S design and have the installation verified by a competent person.