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  1. ICLL

    Locknut on cable compression gland in hazardous area

    Can anyone advise if it is considered essential to fit a locknut to the inside of a compression gland for a steel-wire armoured cable entering a threaded cable entry in an ex'e' enclosure in a Zone 2 hazardous area? I can understand that the locknut would be essential to maintain earth...
  2. ICLL

    CHAZOP - what exactly is it?

    I'm working for an engineering firm (we do some consultancy) and one of our clients has asked us to do a CHAZOP on a plant that another company is building for him. I've attended and even facilitated numerous HAZOPs and SIL assessments, but I've never been to a CHAZOP. I've got a very vague...
  3. ICLL

    Air sparging affecting liquid SG in tank

    Anybody have any idea how much the SG in an atmospheric tank (and therefore the level as detected by a DP measurement device) would be affected by air sparging in the tank? The application is a sanitary waste water equalisation tank on the inlet of a waste water treatment plant. Air blowers are...
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    Why are vane pumps common in diesel fuel service?

    I'd like to understand why vendors offering diesel fuel storage / handling / dispensing systems seem to prefer to offer positive displacement vane pumps, rather than centrifugal pumps. I can understand the requirement for a self-priming pump when intermittently taking suction from a top entry...
  5. ICLL

    SIL classifications for ESD pushbuttons and F&G detectors

    Hope this is the right forum for this question... I have a client who operates a not-normally-manned ten-year-old compressor station on a natural gas pipeline. He wants me to do a SIL evaluation of the ESD shutdown system (hardwired relay-based) for the station in accordance with IEC61511, as...

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