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ATEX – DIRECTIVE ATEX 94/9/EC
On July 1st, 2003 become operative the Directive 94/9/EC (ATEX – Atmosphères Explosives) referring to any equipment to be used in fields with potentially explosive atmosphere.
The directive is referring not only to electric equipments, but also mechanical devices as, in example, pumps which, beeing source of priming, may risk to cause an explosion.
The fields where usually our products are applied (petrochemical, offshore oil platform, distillery, paint production, textile dyeing, …) are involved by the directive ATEX to make our pumps suitable to its rules.
Progressive cavity pumps Nova Rotors are suitable to requests of Group II, category 2 and fo applications in fields with explosion risk due to gas (Zone 1 and 2).
Our pumps, in accordance with 94/9/EC directive, have following identifying label:
II 2 G Eex x T4
- II means Group II, equipments used in fields with atmosphere having explosion risk
- 2 means Category 2, high protection for fields with atmosphere having explosion risk
- G means Gas, atmosphere having explosion risk due to gas, steam, fog; zone 1 (2G) and zone 2 (2G or 3 G)
- Eex means equipment producted following specific requests about protection
- c means construction following specific requests about safety
- T4 is the temperature class allowable on surface of equipment
The enduser must take care temperature of priming for gas, steams, fogs present on field where the equipment is placed.
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