Explosion-proof hardware

Safety engineers identify the approach of using explosion-proof hardware as being "containing." This approach assumes that an ignition can occur and seeks to eliminate damage and hazard when it does. 

Explosion-proof hardware, metal-to-metal faces or threads, for continuous exposures National Electrical Code Class I-Groups A, B, C, D Class II-Groups E,... 

As a footnote, explosion-proof hardware has nothing to do with the safety of materials classed as explosives except where flammable gas, dust or flyings exist. 

Advances in instrumentation, such as diode arrays and ruggedized interferometers, have made IR and Raman instruments readily available for process work. NIR hardware has always been used more for production and quality control than laboratory and research work. They, too, have become smaller, faster, more rugged and, in 1980s dollars, less expensive. Explosion-proof enclosures allow close proximity to reactors containing solvents and can be operated in dusty locations (raw material handling situations). 

Turnkey plant. Consists of all the hardware, software, technical data, and technical assistance necessary for the installation of a complete operating facility for the production of the commodity, a chemical substance, at defined production rates and to specified product qualities. Hardware consists of all the equipment, components, control valves, instruments, reaction vessels, feed lines, and exposition proof barriers necessary for the conduct of the unit operations of the overall production process, whether the items arc assembled or disassembled for transportation. The plant may be designed for installation at a prepared site that includes locally constructed and installed explosion-proof barricades... 

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