INTRINSICALLY SAFE

Hazardous Atmospheres  (for reference only)

Hazardous atmospheres are divided CLASS I, GROUP D: (c, d) CLASS II:

INDICATORS / CONTROLLERS
into three general classes and two • Acetic acid Combustible Dusts (c)
divisions: • Acetone
CLASS I: • Acrylonitrile CLASS II, GROUP E (c, d)
Flammable gases or vapors • Ammonia • Atmospheres containing metal dust, including
• Benzene aluminum, magnesium, and their commercial
CLASS II: alloys, as well as other metals of similarly hazard-
Combustible dusts • Butane ous characteristics with a resistivity of 100 ohms
• 1-butanol (butyl alcohol) per centimeter.
CLASS III:
Ignitable fibers or flyings • 2-butanol (secondary butyl alcohol) CLASS II, GROUP F (c, d)
• N-butyl acetate • Atmospheres containing carbon black, charcoal,
DIVISION 1:
• Isobutyl acetate coal or coke dusts that have more than 8 percent
Hazard exists under normal conditions total volatile material, or atmospheres containing
• Di-isobutylene
DIVISION 2: • Ethane these dusts sensitized by other materials so that
Hazardous material is handled, they present an explosion hazard. They will also
• Ethanol (ethyl alcohol) have a resistivity greater than 100 ohms per cen-
processed or stored. Hazard is not • Ethyl acetate timeter and equal to or less than 100 megohms
normally present, but may be re- • Ethyl acrylate (inhibited) per centimeter.
leased due to accident or equipment • Ethylene diamine (anhydrous) CLASS II, GROUP G (c, d)
malfunction. • Ethylene dichloride • Atmospheres containing flour, starch or grain as
• Ethylene glycol monomethyl ether well as combustible plastics or chemical dusts
CLASS I: • Gasoline having resistivity greater than 1 megohm per
Flammable gases or vapors centimeter.
• Heptanes
• Hexanes
CLASS I, GROUP A: (d) CLASS III:
• Isoprene
• Acetylene Ignitable Fibers or Flyings (c, d)
• Isopropyl ether
CLASS I, GROUP B: (d)
• Mesityl oxide • Atmospheres containing parts of rayon, cotton
• Acrolein (inhibited)
• Methane (natural gas) and other textiles. Combustible fiber manufactur-
• Arsine ing and processing plants such as cotton gins,
• Methanol (methyl alcohol)
• Outadiene cottonseed mills, flax processing plants, clothing
• 3-methyl 1-butanol (isoamyl alcohol) manufacturing plants, sawmills and other wood-
• Ethylene oxide
• Methyl ethyl ketone working locations.
• Hydrogen
• 2-methyl 1-propanol • Easily ignitable fibers including rayon, cotton
• Manufactured gases containing more than 30% (isobutyl alcohol)
hydrogen by volume (including cotton linters and cotton wastes), sisal
• 2-methyl 2-propanol (teriary butyl alcohol) or henequen, istle, jute, hemp, tow, cocoa, oakum,
• Propylene oxide baled waste kapok, Spanish moss, excelsior,

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• Petroleum naptha
• Propylnitrate sawdust, wood chips and other similar
• Pyridine materials.
CLASS I, GROUP C: (c, d) • Octanes
• Acetaldehyde
• Pentanes
• Allyl alcohol
• 1-pentanol (amyl alcohol)
• N-butyraldehyde
• Propane
• Carbon monoxide
• 1-propanol (propyl alcohol)
• Crotonaldeghyde
• 2-propanol (isopropyl alcohol)
• Cyclopropane
• Propylene
• Diethyl ether
• Styrene
• Diethylamine
• Toluene
• Epichlorohydrin
• Vinyl acetate
• Ethylene
• Vinyl chloride
• Ethylenimine
• Xylenes
• Ethyl mercaptan
• Ethyl sulfide
• Morpholine
• 2-nitropropane
• Tetrahydrofuran
• Unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine
• (UMDH 1, 1-dimethyl hydrazine)

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(d) Rice Lake Weighing Systems’ intrinsically safe systems may be used in these atmospheres.

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