Associated Apparatus: The Safe and Most Affordable IS Solution

By Tina Todd, Moore IndustriesThe paper outlines how significant savings, both initial installation and ongoing maintenance costs, for intrinsically-safe (IS) facilities or projects can be achieved by selecting associated apparatus as the IS barrier in your system. It has a brief introduction to intrinsic safety, the different components in an intrinsically-safe system, and the two different types of barriers. This paper also explains why selecting an associated apparatus as the IS barrier provides the most economic and effective use of IS technology.