• NBN EN 61241-14 : 2005

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    ELECTRICAL APPARATUS FOR USE IN THE PRESENCE OF COMBUSTIBLE DUST - PART 14: SELECTION AND INSTALLATION

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    Published date:  12-01-2013

    Publisher:  Belgian Standards

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    INTRODUCTION
    1 Scope
    2 Normative references
    3 Terms and definitions
    4 General requirements for all types of protection
       4.1 Access for inspection
       4.2 Associated equipment located in non-hazardous areas
       4.3 Segregation
       4.4 Electrical rating
       4.5 Protection from mechanical damage and environmental injury
       4.6 Documentation
       4.7 Qualifications of personnel
       4.8 Additional considerations
       4.9 Prevention of explosion
    5 Area classification
    6 Selection of electrical apparatus
       6.1 Permitted apparatus
       6.2 Selection according to dust characteristics and zones
       6.3 Selection according to temperature
       6.4 Selection of apparatus
    7 Protection from dangerous (incendive) sparking
       7.1 Danger from live parts
       7.2 Danger from exposed and extraneous conductive parts
       7.3 Potential equalization
       7.4 Static electricity
       7.5 Electromagnetic radiation
       7.6 Lightning protection
       7.7 Cathodically protected metallic parts
    8 Electrical protection
       8.1 General
       8.2 Location of protection and control equipment
       8.3 Resetting of short-circuit and earth-fault protection
            devices
       8.4 Protection of rotating electrical machinery
       8.5 Loss of supply phase
       8.6 Transformer protection
    9 Emergency switch-off and electrical isolation
       9.1 Emergency switch-off
       9.2 Electrical isolation
    10 Wiring systems
       10.1 General
       10.2 Entries for cable and conduit
       10.3 Accessories
       10.4 Course of wiring
       10.5 Barriers
       10.6 Flexible connection
       10.7 Cable entries
       10.8 Unauthorized methods
       10.9 Telecommunications circuits
       10.10 Unused openings
    11 Plugs and socket outlets
       11.1 General
       11.2 Mounting
       11.3 Location
    12 Additional requirements for type of protection "Ex tD"
       12.1 Practices A and B
       12.2 Practice A
       12.3 Practice B
       12.4 Motors supplied at varying frequency and voltages
    13 Additional requirements for type of protection "pD"
       13.1 Sources of protective gas
       13.2 Automatic switch-off
       13.3 Alarm
       13.4 Common source of protective gas
       13.5 Switching on electrical supply
       13.6 Motors supplied at varying frequency and voltages
    14 Additional requirements for type of protection "iD"
    15 Additional requirements for type of protection "mD"
    16 Inspection of installation
       16.1 General
       16.2 Testing
    Annex A (informative) Examples of dust layers of excessive
            thickness
    Annex B (normative) Frictional sparking risks with light metals
            and their alloys
    Annex ZA (normative) Normative references to international
             publications with their corresponding European
             publications
    Bibliography

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    Describes general requirements, additional to those required for basic electrical safety, for the selection of electrical apparatus and instruments and associated equipment, and for the installation of electrical apparatus to ensure safe use in areas where combustible dust may be present in quantities which could lead to a fire or explosion hazard.

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    Publisher Belgian Standards
    Status Current
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