The course is about electrical equipment’s in explosive atmosphere. The risk levels associated with electrical equipment in oil and gas industry are high. These warrants careful selection,Installation, inspection, operation and maintenance of electrical equipment’s by applying industry standards.
Hazards are a part of life in all operational activities risk depends upon the Zone classifications as hydrocarbon gas release.Industrial Best practices has taught mankind the need to assess hazards and take necessary precautions to overcome hazards it is recognized that absolute safety from all risks in unattainable but there should be mitigation plan.
In past history incidents started to occur the slowly and increased in number and magnitude and the disaster triggered.RCA (Root cause Analysis) team started investigation and to prepare mitigation plan to overcome with such type of fire incidents.
The important contribution was the development of the first intrinsic safety devices to limit spark energy. Under the right conditions many substances burnt but the hydrocarbon gases and the vapours from hydrocarbon liquids are far more easily ignitable if they are present a certain concentration it may ignite itself at certain temperature or can ignited by sparks. The ignition is spontaneous and releases tremendous internal energy causing explosions. Electrify is associate with heat and sparks which makes is evident to cause fire and explosion, if not controlled