Electrical installation cabling

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Safety Showers. Safety showers and eyewash fountains or hoses should be installed where corrosive or toxic materials are handled. A large-volume, low velocity discharge from directly overhead should effect continuous drenching, ie, a minimum flow of 20 L/min (50 gal /min). Water to outside showers may be heated to a maximum temperature of 27°C by an electric heating cable. The valves for all safety showers should be at the same height and relative position to the shower head, and they should operate in the same way and direction. The shower station should be identified by paint of a bright, contrasting color. In areas where chemicals harmful to the eyes may be encountered, an eyewash fountain or spray should be available in case of splash accidents. 

Installations underground in mines and self-propelled mobile surface mining machinery and its attendant electrical trailing cable. 

The people going to be gassed and those in the gas chamber damaged the electrical installations, tearing the cables out and damaging the ventilation equipment. ... 

Any appropriate notes on segregation requirements for installation purposes (e.g., distance from electrical power cables)... 

IEC61084 Cable trunking and ducting systems for electrical installation. Part 1 General requirements. 

Colours play an essential safety role in giving information for use in tbe prevention of accidents, for warning of health hazards, to identify contents of gas cylinders, pipeline and services, the identification and safe use of cables and components in electronic and electrical installations as well as the correct use of fire-fighting equipment. 

Electrical installations and motors, cables, control centres, and cogeneration units ... 

Electrical installers usually make their connections cold , terminating cables in joint boxes or using crimping tools for larger cable connections. However, mechanical service trades on site, such as plumbers and heating and ventilation engineers, make many of their connections by hot working. 

On 31 March 2004, the lET published Amendment No. 2 to BS 7671 2001 which specified new cable core colours for all fixed wiring in UK electrical installations. These new core colours harmonize the United Kingdom with the practice in mainland Europe. 

Optical fibre cables are communication cables made from optical-quality plastic, the same material from which spectacle lenses are manufactured. The energy Is transferred down the cable as digital pulses of laser light, as against current flowing down a copper conductor In electrical Installation terms. 

A conduit is a tube, channei or pipe in which insuiated conductors are contained. The conduit, in effect, repiaces the PVC outer sheath of a cable, providing mechanicai protection for the insuiated conductors. A conduit instaiiation can be rewired easiiy or aitered at any time, and this flexibility, coupled with mechanical protection, makes conduit installations popular for commercial and industrial applications. There are three types of conduit used in electrical installation work steel, PVC and flexible. 

Optical fibre cables are communication cables made from optical-quality plastic, the same material from which spectacle lenses are manufactured. The energy is transferred down the cable as digital pulses of laser light as against current flowing down a copper conductor in electrical installation terms. The light pulses stay within the fibre-optic cable because of a scientific principle known as total internal refraction which means that the laser light bounces down the cable and when it strikes the outer wall it is always deflected inwards and, therefore, does not escape out of the cable, as shown in Fig. 14.46. 

Electrical installations used in flammable atmospheres require special consideration as regards design, construction and installation of the metallic cable sheathing, cable armouring or conduit, junction boxes, cable gland... 

Ceramizable (ceramifiable) silicone rubber-based composites are fire resistant materials developed especially for cable covers application. In case of fire, electrical installations are endangered of short circuit effect which can deactivate lots of important devices, like fire sprinklers, elevators, fire alarms or lamps indicating route to emergency exits. Ceramizable composites are able to sustain functioning of electric circuit on fire and high temperature up to 120 min by producing ceramic, porous layer protecting copper wire inside a cable. 

Cement raw materials, clinker, cement and some auxiliary materials used in the manufacturing process are incombustible. All the same, outbreaks of fire in a cement works can by no means be ruled out. Office buildings, housing accommodation, laboratories and the lubricants store are subject to the normal fire hazards, while potentially disastrous major fires can occur in fuel stores and their ancillary installations. Besides, fires may start in electrical switchgear, cables, transformers, process control systems and measuring equipment. 

Section 4 is concerned with fire risks consequent on alterations or additions. Among the electrical causations listed are overloading of cables due to changes in the connected load, cables surrounded by thermal insulation applied subsequent to the initial installation, and extra circuits added in conduit and trunking. Some of the non-electrical causations are the subsequent installation of steam pipes close to parts of the electrical installation, and changes in the use of the premises which may introduce adverse conditions inimical to the installation, such as dust, corrosive fumes or vibration. 

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