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Hazardous Area Classification in Chemical Industry

Author(s):

Dharmendra Pal , SHIV KUMAR SINGH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE; Pravin Tathod, SHIV KUMAR SINGH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE; Nisha Kushwaha, SHIV KUMAR SINGH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE

Keywords:

Chemical Industry, Electrical Equipment, Hazardous Area Classification

Abstract

Chemical Industries play big role to convert the raw materials into desired products that we use in our day-to-day life. Chemical industry brought a tremendous revolution in the way the things operate. It is very necessary to understand the importance of the chemical industry which has brought record changes in our life like Agriculture, Environment, Health, Luxury life, Food, Hygiene, Décor, and Transportation etc. In one hand chemicals has become our life partner as day to day utility purpose, in another hand the processing of chemicals as per desired chemistry is very challengeable. Chemical industry is the second largest sector after construction industry which has bigger trend line of accident and incident. Chemical industry has greater risk of fire and explosion due to handling of various inflammable chemicals. There are several causes behind these fire and explosion index. Hazardous area classification is one of the study which deals proper selection of electrical equipment in chemical plant which is more prone to fire hazard.

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Paper ID: IJSRDV7I20609
Published in: Volume : 7, Issue : 2
Publication Date: 01/05/2019
Page(s): 656-660

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