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Europisches Komitee lhydraulik & Pneumatik European Oil Hydraulic & Pneumatic Committee Comit Europen des Transmissions

ns Olohydrauliques & Pneumatiques

ATmosphres EXplosibles
Zones Temperature Customer End user Certicate of conformity Notied Body

ZONES/EQUIPMENT CATEGORIES
(dened in application of 1999/92/EC Directive) Zones 0: Permanent presence Gas 1: Occasional presence 2: Rare presence Equipment category 1G 2G or 1G 3G, 2G or 1G

Fluid Power Application

Directives Standards

EXPLOSION GROUPS
Area Mines Group I IIA Surface IIB IIC Gas reference Methane Propane Ethylene Hydrogen /Acetylene

Certication

ATEX
Control Testing
Standards Test Report Notied Body and/or Manufacturer

Construction
Quality Assurance Manufacturer

Declaration of conformity Manufacturer

20: Permanent presence Dust 21: Occasional presence 23: Rare presence

1D 2D or 1D 3D, 2D or 1D

TYPE OF PROTECTION FOR NON-ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT Concept EN standards


Gas /Dust 13463-1 13463-2 13463-3 13463-5 13463-6 13463-8

Code
Gas /Dust fr d c b k

TYPE OF PROTECTION FOR ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT


Concept General requirements Flameproof enclosure Pressurised apparatus Powder lling Oil immersion Increased safety Intrinsic safety Non sparking Energy-limited Restricted-breathing Sealed devices Encapsulation 60079 -18 61241-18 IEC/EN standards Gas 60079 - 0 60079 -1 60079 - 2 60079 - 5 60079 - 6 60079 -7 60079 -11 60079 -15 Dust 61241- 0 61241-1 61241-4 61241-11 Gas d px/py/pz q o e ia/ib/ic nA nL nR nC ma/mb maD/mbD Code Dust tD pD iaD/ibD -

General requirements Flow restricting enclosure Flameproof enclosure Constructional safety Control of ignition sources Liquid immersion

DUST IGNITION TEMPERATURES

CETOP is: the communication platform for uid power in Europe an international umbrella organisation for 17 national uid power associations with more than 1,000 member companies all over Europe

Material
Paper bre (16 mm) Aluminium (< 10 mm) Corn starch (< 10 mm) Wheat (37 mm) Wood (60 mm) Sugar (30 mm)

Ignition temperatures (C)


cloud 570 560 530 510 500 490 440 5 mm layer 335 430 460 300 310 480
No ignition
(fusion)

GAS TEMPERATURE CLASSES


Maximum surface temperature Temperature class Typical substances C 600 500 400

560C Hydrogen 537C Methane 425C Ethylene 305C Acetylene 210C Kerosene 160C Ethyl ether 95C Carbon disulphide

T1 T1 T2 T2 T3 T4 T6

Polyethylene (72 mm)

T1

450

T2 T3 T4 T5 T6

300 200 135 100 85

300 200 100

MARKING

Fluid Power SA Belgium, Brussels Type of equipment Gas marking Dust marking Type: /0123456D U=230 VAC; P=2.5 W Ex d mb IIC T4 Ex tD A21 IP67 T 135C Tamb. 40C; + 65C 0081 II 2 G D LCIE 02 ATEX 6024 X XX.XX.XXXX

Name of manufacturer

Electrical parameters

EUROPEAN SCHEME OF CERTIFICATION (94/9/EC)


Category 1 or M1 2 or M2 3 or 1 or 2 or 3 Unit verication (Annex IX) Electrical equipment EC type examination (Annex III) Production quality assurance (Annex IV or Annex V) EC type examination (Annex III) Product quality assurance (Annex VII or Annex VI) Internal control of production (Annex VIII) Mechanical/pneumatic/ hydraulic equipment EC type examination (Annex III) Production quality assurance (Annex IV or Annex V) Internal control (Annex VIII) Communicate the le to a notied body Internal control of production (Annex VIII)

Temperature parameters ATEX certicate no.

DEGREE OF PROTECTION BY ENCLOSURE


First gure indicates protection against dangerous access and solid foreign objects

ATEX marking

IP
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Second gure indicates protection against water penetration

Date of production
Non-protected Protected against solid object 50 mm or more Protected against solid object 12,5 mm or more Protected against solid object 2,5 mm or more Protected against solid object 1 mm or more Dust protected Dust-tight Non-protected Protected against vertically falling water drops Protected against vertically falling water drops when enclosure tilted up to 15 Protected against spraying water when up to 60 from vertical Protected against splashing water from any direction Protected against jets of water from any direction Protected against powerful jets of water from any direction Protected against immersion Protected against continuous immersion

For protection systems: category 1 or M1

According to IEC/EN 60529

ATEX/IECEx: Certication standards identical for electrical equipment. For IECEx and ATEX equipment, possibility to deliver the certicates based on the same standards. Audit of the quality system for IECEx and ATEX based on common requirements.
CETOP General Secretariat Lyoner Strasse 18 60528 Frankfurt/Main Germany e-mail: info@cetop.org www.cetop.org
This poster is not intended to be exhaustive. It is based on the information supplied by national CETOP member associations. We cannot assume responsibility for the correctness of this. All information is subject to change.

November 2008

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