Explosivity gas & vapor general

To investigate the Explosivity of gasses and vapors, international standards and procedures have been defined. The test equipment is very expensive and the people occupied with this investigation are specialists. This is the reason that this kind of investigation is performed at larger laboratories or research institutes. The listing below is a reduced content of the PTB website, which however indicates the relevant standard.

In the Netherlands and Belgium regularly reference is made to a Dutch practical guideline named the NPR 7910 part 1 since this guideline is informing how the EN60097-10 has to be interpreted in practice.

Test results of these investigations serve to enable Ex-zonification and classification in order to define the appropriate requirements for equipment to be used such areas.