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Intrinsic safety (IS) is a protection technique for safe operation of electrical equipment in hazardous areas by limiting the energy, electrical and thermal, available for ignition. In signal and control circuits that can operate with low currents and voltages, the intrinsic safety approach simplifies circuits and reduces installation cost over ...
Equipment can be designed or modified for safe operation in hazardous locations. The two general approaches are: Intrinsic safety Intrinsic safety, also called non-incendive, limits the energy present in a system, such that it is insufficient to ignite a hazardous atmosphere under any conditions. This includes both low power levels, and low ...
(Kletz originally used the term intrinsically safe in 1978, but as this had already been used for the special case of electronic equipment in potentially flammable atmospheres, only the term inherent was adopted. Intrinsic safety may be considered a special subset of inherent safety). In 2010 the American Institute of Chemical Engineers ...
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For this reason, optional intrinsic safety is fully integrated into the definitions of the Ethernet-APL communication standard. In the technical specification 2-WISE [3] the 2-wire intrinsically safe Ethernet is defined. The intrinsic safety barrier is an electronic circuit at each output or input of a switch or instrument. It prevents ...
A more recent enhancement for intrinsically safe applications is the High Power Trunk (HPT) with field-based field barriers (FBs), which limits power at the spur, rather than the trunk. This method significantly changes the equation for end users of Fieldbus in hazardous settings.