In the production of a container, 4 drums filled with different substances are placed individually next to each other on a pallet. The substances are sucked in with a suction nozzle and transported further via pipes. During the suction process, the substances and the barrel are electrostatically charged. The drums must therefore be grounded and the ground connection monitored. The application is located in the EX-area!
For cost reasons, the customer did not want to monitor each individual drum separately. Since all 4 barrels always had to be grounded at the same time, he would also have had more wiring effort for pump release with individual monitoring. Our task was therefore to solve the task with only one monitoring device! At the same time, the system had to be designed to be escape-proof. The operators had to be forced to be able to connect the tongs to the barrel only.
The problem was solved by selecting suitable ground clamps and ground monitoring equipment, as well as by limiting the leakage resistance of the barrels to the ground.
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