Intrinsic Safety
SKU:
CA$595.00
CA$595.00
A course designed for Consulting Electrical and Instrument Engineers, Technicians and Designers, Product Development Specialists, Sales Representatives, Safety Codes Officers, Maintenance and Construction Electricians and Operations Personnel who work in in the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries.
Course Description
Learning Objectives
Course Information
Course not currently scheduled.
Venue
Course not currently scheduled.
Instructor
Allan Bozek, P.Eng, MBA
Allan has over 30 years experience in the design, construction, commissioning and maintenance of industrial power systems. The scope of his experience includes manufacturing, oil and gas production, refining, water treatment and mining industrial facilities. He is a member of the IEEE industrial applications society, a committee member of the Canadian Electrical Code Section 18 (Hazardous Locations) and is a registered Profession Engineer in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario.
Detailed Outline
1. Hazardous Location Fundamentals
- To provide a general understanding of Field Wired Intrinsic Safety Circuits and their application
- To know the various codes and product standards that apply to products designed for hazardous locations
- To understand the applicable codes and standards
Course Information
Course not currently scheduled.
Venue
Course not currently scheduled.
Instructor
Allan Bozek, P.Eng, MBA
Allan has over 30 years experience in the design, construction, commissioning and maintenance of industrial power systems. The scope of his experience includes manufacturing, oil and gas production, refining, water treatment and mining industrial facilities. He is a member of the IEEE industrial applications society, a committee member of the Canadian Electrical Code Section 18 (Hazardous Locations) and is a registered Profession Engineer in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario.
Detailed Outline
1. Hazardous Location Fundamentals
- Hazardous Locations (Flammable Gases)
- Fire Triangle
- Properties of flammable gases/vapours
- Hazardous area classification
- Division vs. Zone method of classification
- Hazardous Locations (Combustible Dusts)
- Fire Pentagon
- Properties of combustible dusts
- Hazardous area classification
- Division vs. Zone method of classification
- North American Division standards
- CSA Standards
- ISA Standards
- IEC standards
- Canadian Electrical Code requirements
- Equipment Protection Level (EPL) concepts
- Intrinsic Safety Design Concepts
- Ex ia
- Ex ib
- Ex ic
- Non-incendive Design Concepts
- Difference between Non-incendive devices and Non-incendive Field Wiring
- Intrinsically Safe Systems with electronically controlled spark duration limitation (Power-i)
- FISCO Fieldbus Intrinsically Safe Concept
- Entity parameters
- Associated Apparatus
- Intrinsically Safe Apparatus
- Simple Devices
- Non-simple Devices
- Interconnecting wiring parameters
- Resolution of the entity parameters for a safe installation
- Assessment of circuits with more than one source of power
- CEC Code Requirements
- Circuit segregation requirements
- Sealing requirements
- Process Secondary seals
- CEC Code Requirements
- Zener Barrier vs. Galvanic Isolation barrier grounding
- Surge protection
- Control Drawing
- Systems Descriptive Document
- Selection of components, resolution of entity parameters and documentation of an IS circuit application
Corporate Training Courses
If you have 6 or more potential attendees in your organization, consider a corporate venue. We will come to you and present this course. This can be very cost effective especially in situations where employee travel and accommodation is required. If a corporate venue is of interest, let us know and we will prepare a proposal for you.
If you have 6 or more potential attendees in your organization, consider a corporate venue. We will come to you and present this course. This can be very cost effective especially in situations where employee travel and accommodation is required. If a corporate venue is of interest, let us know and we will prepare a proposal for you.