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Intrinsic Safety. Static electrical concepts such as minimum ignition energy do not directly apply when assessing the safety of electrical circuits such as radios, flashlights and instmmentation. Intrinsically safe electrical equipment is usually available which has been subjected to fault analysis and testing. The equipment must be certified for the flammable atmosphere in which it will be used (NFPA 497). Refer to texts on Intrinsic Safety such as [63]. 

Using the constructed potentials the y-surface for the (111) plane was calculated. (For more details see Girshick and Vitek 1995). T e lowest energy minimum on this surface corresponds to the ideal Llo structure. However, there are three different metastable stacking fault type defects on (111) the antiphase boundary (APB), the complex stacking fault (CSF) and the superlattice intrinsic stacking fault (SISF). The displacements... 

Rosengaard and Skriver [5] have demonstrated, that in all 3d, 4d, and 5d transition metals, the intrinsic stacking fault energy, 7, can be accurately estimated from the relation,... 

Figure 1 Intrinsic stacking fault energy for chemically disordered solid solution Al-X (where X=Cu or Mg) as a function of composition.

Figure 2 Comparison between intrinsic stacking fault energy (solid line) with two times the energy difference between the hep and the fee structure (dashed line) for Al-Cu (left panel) and Al-Mg (right panel) solid solution as a function of alloy composition.

Where a.c. supplies exist, transformer-rectifiers are the most economical source of d.c. for cathodic protection systems. In the case of pipelines, standard transformer-rectifiers, either oil or air cooled, can be employed. They range in size from 5A, 5V for small systems to 100 A, 48 V for major pipeline schemes. A typical output for a well-coated cross-country pipeline in the UK would be 5 A, 48 V. In the case of sea-water jetties where the voltage required is usually low because of the lower sea-water resistivity, a typical rectifier size for a major installation would be 500 A, 18 V. For offshore pipelines and loading platforms where a fire hazard exists, it is usual to employ certified flameproof or intrinsically safe rectifiers to overcome any possibility of fire hazard should faults develop in the unit. 

All of these point defects are intrinsic to the heterogeneous solid, and cirise due to the presence of both cation and anion sub-lattices. The factors responsible for their formation are entropy effects (stacking faults) and impurity effects. At the present time, the highest-purity materials available stiU contain about 0.1 part per billion of various impurities, yet are 99.9999999 % pure. Such a solid will still contain about IQi impurity atoms per mole. So it is safe to say that all solids contain impurity atoms, and that it is unlikely that we shall ever be able to obtain a solid which is completdy pure and does not contain defects. 

High-resolution lattice images (e.g., Fig. 8(c)) reveal that the platelets are associated neither with dislocation loops nor with either intrinsic or extrinsic stacking faults. The platelets appear to be microcracks in which the separation between adjacent planes of Si atoms over a finite area is increased due to the slight displacement of these atoms from their substitutional lattice sites. From computer simulations, the lattice images are... 

Intrinsically Safe Circuits A circuit which any spark or thermal effect, produced either normally or in specified fault conditions, is incapable, under the test conditions prescribed in this standard, of causing ignition of a mixture of flammable or combustible material in air in its most easily ignited concentration."(3)... 

First, once designed, evaluated, and installed, the safety of the system cannot easily be degraded because the safety is in the design, not protection added afterward. In fact, the intrinsically safe electrical circuit will cease to fulfill the function for which it was designed long before it can become a hazard. This is due to the consideration which must be given to fault conditions. The only possible way for the circuit to become hazardous is if an unapproved or unauthorized component is substituted into the circuit. 

Intrinsic safety is based on the principal of restricting the electrical energy available in hazardous area circuits such that any sparks or hot surfaces that may occur as a result of electrical faults are too weak to cause an ignition. The useful power is about 1 watt, which is sufficient for most current instrumentation. It also provides a personnel safety factor since the voltages are low and it can allow field equipment to be maintained and calibrated "live" without the need for a gas free environment verification. Electrical components or equipment can be manufacturer as intrinsically safe and there readily usable in areas where combustible gases or vapors may be present. 

The term 13 is sensitive to the sense of the phase difference, and examination of the contrast of the first fringe from the exit surface enables the sense of and hence the nature of the fault, whether extrinsic or intrinsic, to be determined. The magnitude of r can be determined from the reflections in which the fault is invisible. This occurs whenever g.r=0 or n where n is integral. 

LIF methods can be applied in-line, at-line and on-line for real-time monitoring as discussed throughout this chapter. In-line or in situ intrinsic LIF is by far more prevalent in real-time applications such as PAT as it is nondestructive and simple to deploy along with attractive analytical merits. In-line application can be accomplished by direct insertion in situ probes or flow cells. This type of monitoring is utilized for realtime analyte quantification monitoring and detection of process endpoints and faults. 

Intrinsically Safe Will not ignite the most ignitable concentration of the hazardous material at 1.5 times the highest energy possible under normal conditions, under 1.5 times the energy of the worst single fault, and under the energy of the worst combination of two faults. Class 1, Division 1 Class 1, Zone 0 Class II, Division 1 Class III Locations... 

As mentioned, like any other technical method, the method of impinging streams (IS) cannot be a universal tool. On one hand, IS has the outstanding advantage of significantly enhancing heat and mass transfer between phases while on the other, it also has its intrinsic faults. From the discussions in the previous chapters, the essential characteristics of gas-continuous impinging streams can be summarized briefly as follows ... 

Another contribution to variations of intrinsic activity is the different number of defects and amount of disorder in the metallic Cu phase. This disorder can manifest itself in the form of lattice strain detectable, for example, by line profile analysis of X-ray diffraction (XRD) peaks [73], 63Cu nuclear magnetic resonance lines [74], or as an increased disorder parameter (Debye-Waller factor) derived from extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy [75], Strained copper has been shown theoretically [76] and experimentally [77] to have different adsorptive properties compared to unstrained surfaces. Strain (i.e. local variation in the lattice parameter) is known to shift the center of the d-band and alter the interactions of metal surface and absorbate [78]. The origin of strain and defects in Cu/ZnO is probably related to the crystallization of kinetically trapped nonideal Cu in close interfacial contact to the oxide during catalyst activation at mild conditions. A correlation of the concentration of planar defects in the Cu particles with the catalytic activity in methanol synthesis was observed in a series of industrial Cu/Zn0/Al203 catalysts by Kasatkin et al. [57]. Planar defects like stacking faults and twin boundaries can also be observed by HRTEM and are marked with arrows in Figure 5.3.8C [58],... 

Since stacking faults frequently do extend across entire planes, it is convenient to broaden this idea and thereby interrelate several different structures in terms of regular stacking sequences brought about by the recurrent insertion of a specific replacement vector parallel to the layer planes. We note that the notion of the fault now gives way to an intrinsic structural characteristic, a point to which we shall return fre-... 

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