DocumentCode
1806822
Title
Earthing in industrial and pharmaceutical plants
Author
Fallon, Kieran
fYear
2005
fDate
16-16 March 2005
Firstpage
42430
Lastpage
42457
Abstract
Earthing (or grounding) is an essential part of any electrical installation. Within industrial and pharmaceutical plants with potentially explosive atmospheres earthing plays an essential role in maintaining the electrical and instrumentation systems in safe condition. The earthing system, although a single physical system, it carries out many different functions including automatic detection and clearance of electrical faults, prevention of dangerous potential differences which could cause injury, prevention and dissipation of static charges, screening and reduction of interference in instrumentation system and provision of a reference point for intrinsically safe Zener barriers systems
Keywords
earthing; fault diagnosis; industrial plants; installation; pharmaceutical industry; safety; automatic detection; earthing; electrical faults; electrical installation; industrial plants; instrumentation systems; interference reduction; intrinsically safe Zener barriers systems; pharmaceutical plants; potential differences prevention; static charges dissipation; static charges prevention;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Earthing and Bonding Techniques for Electrical Installations, 2005. The IEE Tutorial Workshop on (Ref. No. 2005/10816)
Conference_Location
Manchester
Print_ISBN
0-86341-500-8
Type
conf
Filename
1497670
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