Fire and Gas Mapping (F&G Mapping)
F&G Mapping is needed to improve safety and optimise systems by maintaining high safety levels through determining the optimum layout of fire & gas detectors within a facility and ensuring timely action from systems that reduce the extent of harm from hazardous scenarios. ECE assesses Detector coverage, F&G systems safety availability and Mitigation effectiveness for Fire and Gas Mapping and F&G Layout review
HAC (Hazardous Area Classification)
Hazardous areas are defined as any place in which an explosive atmosphere may occur in quantities such as to require special precautions to protect the safety of workers.
Hazardous Area Classification is a method of analysing and classifying the environment where explosive gas atmospheres may occur. The main purpose is to facilitate the proper selection and installation of apparatus to be used safely in that environment, taking into account the properties of the flammable materials that will be present.
Mechanical Equipment Ignition Risk Assessment (MEIRA)
While the hazards associated with the use of electrical equipment in gas, vapour, and combustible dust atmospheres are widely recognized, the fact that mechanical equipment could also be a source of ignition is sometimes overlooked. Mechanical equipment and components could be a source of ignition due to hot surfaces, mechanical impacts, mechanical friction, Thermite reactions caused by impacts involving aluminium & rust and Electrostatic Discharges. The statistical data collected about the source of ignition of the known fire and explosion events indicates that heating caused by mechanical friction is responsible for 33%, and hot surfaces 4% of events. At the same time fires and explosions caused by electrical equipment represent only 4% of the events. This can be attributed to the fact that ignition hazards presented by non-electrical equipment are often less effectively accessed and managed. ECE conducts ignition hazard assessment of mechanical equipment using internationally accepted methodologies such as ATEX, and EN 15198:2005, to assist equipment manufacturers and users to prepare for the international explosion safety certification of their products and processe