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03/313421 DC : DRAFT NOV 2003

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IEC 60079-28 - ELECTRICAL APPARATUS FOR EXPLOSIVE GAS ATMOSPHERES - PART 28: RISK OF IGNITION BY RADIATION OF EXPLOSIVE ATMOSPHERES OF GAS, VAPOUR OR MIST FROM OPTICAL RADIATION EQUIPMENT AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
Superseded date

31-05-2007

Published date

23-11-2012

1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Definitions
4 General requirements
  4.1 Optical equipment
  4.2 Risk levels
5 Protection concepts
  5.1 General
  5.2 Requirements for inherently safe optical radiation
      5.2.1 General
      5.2.2 Continuous wave radiation
      5.2.3 Pulsed radiation
      5.2.4 Ignition tests
      5.2.5 Optical devices incorporating the inherently
            safe concept
  5.3 Requirements for protected optical radiation
      5.3.1 Radiation inside fibre etc. (No mechanical damage
            to be expected)
      5.3.2 Radiation inside enclosures
  5.4 Optical radiation interlock with optical fibre breakage
  5.5 Suitability of protection concepts
6 Type verifications and tests
  6.1 Test set-up for ignition tests with continuous wave
      radiation and pulses above 1s duration
      6.1.1 Test apparatus
      6.1.2 Test conditions
      6.1.3 Test mixture
      6.1.4 Reference test
  6.2 Test set-up for ignition tests with pulsed radiation
      6.2.1 Single pulses below 1 ms duration
      6.2.2 Tests for pulse trains and pulses between 1 ms
            and 1 s duration
  6.3 Safety factor
7 Marking
  7.1 General
  7.2 Marking Information
  7.3 Examples of marking
Annex A (Informative) Reference test data
Annex B (informative) Ignition mechanisms
Annex C (normative) Ignition hazard assessment
Annex D (informative) Typical optical fibre cable design
Annex E (informative) Literature

Committee
GEL/31
DocumentType
Draft
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy

IEC 60079-10:2002 Electrical apparatus for explosive gas atmospheres - Part 10: Classification of hazardous areas
IEC 60825-2:2004+AMD1:2006+AMD2:2010 CSV Safety of laser products - Part 2: Safety of optical fibre communication systems (OFCS)
IEC 60050-731:1991 International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) - Part 731: Optical fibre communication
IEC 61511-1:2016+AMD1:2017 CSV Functional safety - Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector - Part 1: Framework, definitions, system, hardware and application programming requirements
IEC 61508-5:2010 Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems - Part 5: Examples of methods for the determination of safety integrity levels (see Functional Safety and IEC 61508)
IEC 61508-4:2010 Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems - Part 4: Definitions and abbreviations (see Functional Safety and IEC 61508)
IEC 61508-3:2010 Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems - Part 3: Software requirements (see Functional Safety and IEC 61508)
IEC 60050-426:2008 International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) - Part 426: Equipment for explosive atmospheres
IEC 60079-11:2011 Explosive atmospheres - Part 11: Equipment protection by intrinsic safety "i"
IEC 61511-3:2016 Functional safety - Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector - Part 3: Guidance for the determination of the required safety integrity levels
IEC 60079-0:2011 Explosive atmospheres - Part 0: Equipment - General requirements
IEC 61508-6:2010 Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems - Part 6: Guidelines on the application of IEC 61508-2 and IEC 61508-3 (see Functional Safety and IEC 61508)
IEC 61508-1:2010 Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems - Part 1: General requirements (see Functional Safety and IEC 61508)
IEC 61508-7:2010 Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems - Part 7: Overview of techniques and measures (see Functional Safety and IEC 61508)
IEC 61508-2:2010 Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems - Part 2: Requirements for electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems (see Functional Safety and IEC 61508)

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