ATEX LED Lighting

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lIGHTING Hazardous Areas

There is an international trend in the global hazardous area industry sector to upgrade conventional ATEX lighting to use energy-efficient LED lighting technology.

The specification and installation of LED lights, such as Raytec SPARTAN, will significantly reduce annual energy consumption and lower carbon emissions. The LED lights will also lower light pollution and reduce maintenance costs.

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint By Several Shoe Sizes

Furthermore, businesses are proactively aligning their hazardous area lighting upgrade with sustainability strategies to reduce carbon emissions and support ambitious carbon neutrality targets agreed by the EU in 2019 – the upgrade and investment in LED lighting by business in pursuit of zero emissions status by 2050 has led to several multinational companies to accelerate the replacement of now retrograde fluorescent type lights with modern-technology light-emitting diode (LED) light fittings.

In the drive to go green the fading glow of traditional light fittings is fastly being replaced by the brilliant “White Light” illumination of energy efficient, modern technology light-emitting diode (LED) lighting systems.

Lighting Design

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We can help you Design your Lighting Scheme and here is how:

• Full Site Modelling – a 3D design plan is used to provide you with a visual representation of what the final installed hazarodus area lighting solution with actually look like, demonstrating the lux levels and spread of light that will be achieved on scene.
• Lighting Design Video – Thorne & Derrick and Raytec can produce video designs of your final lighting scheme. Providing a 3D walk-around offering a real life insight into how the installation will perform – from all angles.
• Illuminance Mapping – 2D and 3D hazardous area lighting plans can also be provided in a pseudo colour view, providing illuminance mapping of the intensity and spread of the light output across the site. This is used to show that the area has been evenly illuminated which is crucial for achieving the highest level of safety and security.
• Lighting Positions – Raytec lighting is highly targeted, providing only the right amount of light needed on scene for maximum efficiency and minimum waste. Plotting the beam direction shows the precise aiming point of each LED panel, the angle of elevation and exact position of each luminaire.

The SPARTAN range of ATEX Certified lighting manufactured by Raytec is designed for lighting hazardous areas which require high performance, high reliability, energy-efficient brilliant “White-Light” illumination using latest LED technology.

Specify SPARTAN

• High Performance – latest SMT LED technology delivering hazardous area lighting with high lumen output of up to 9,000 lumens
• Emergency Lighting – SPARTAN is available as emergency light fitting with battery back-up to deliver light when it is needed most, and can even be upgraded to an emergency fitting on site
• Operating Temperatures – suitable for a wide variety of installations from -52°C to + 55°C and rated for T4/T5/T6 environments
• Angle Options – 8 beam patterns from 10° to 120° both circular and elliptical
• Flexible Installation – integrated PSU can be removed and located remotely at ground level for limited access areas. Up to 100m (328ft) away from the light fitting
• Fully Serviceable – modular design and removable PSU and LED modules for easy installation, maintenance and inspection
• Quality Lighting – designed and manufactured in the UK to the highest standards including both ISO9001 & ISO14001. SPARTAN light fittings and fixtures are all provided with an industry leading 5 year warranty
• Energy Efficient & Savings – significant running and maintenance savings compared to traditional fluorescent lighting technology while maximising light output. CoolXtrude thermal technology provides heat dissipation up to 60% better than other LED lights
• Full Lighting Design Service – T&D working with Raytec offer both aa ATEX Certified hazardous area lighting design service and an energy and cost saving report to all customers. Photometric files are also available for SPARTAN light fittings (.ies & .ldt)
• White-Light & Infra-Red – SPARTAN is also available as an Infra-Red light fitting for use with surveillance cameras located in hazardous area workplaces – distances up to 320m (1,050ft)

Further Raytec Reading

• LED Lighting for Offshore Wind Farms | The Raytec SPARTAN Lighting Range
• Guide To Selecting The Correct Raytec Spartan ATEX Lighting | Zone 1 & Zone 2
• Identifying Zone 0, Zone 1 & Zone 2 Hazardous Areas | Raytec Lighting
• Hazardous Area Lighting | Raytec SPARTAN Flood Emergency Light Fittings
• Thorne & Derrick & Raytec | Together Safely Lighting Hazardous Areas

In July 2019, Thorne & Derrick International announced that they signed a Preferred Distributor Agreement with Raytec, the world leading manufacturer of LED lighting products for hazardous areas and explosive atmosphere locations.

Pictured Left to Right: Callum Ryder (Marketing Manager – Raytec), Natalie Lundie (Social Media & SEO Marketing – T&D), Chris Dodds (Sales & Marketing Manager – T&D), Richard Derrick (MD – T&D), Terry McDonald (Business Development Manager – T&D) and Barry Thompson (Raytec – Director of Hazardous Area Division).

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Thorne & Derrick | Experts In Equipment for Explosive Atmospheres | UK Distributors of the Extstream Portable Ventilation Fans for Hazardous Areas | IECEx & ATEX Certified

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ATEX & DSEAR

The Maintenance, Inspection and Testing of Equipment for service in Explosive Atmospheres should be carried out by approved CompEx qualified engineers – Ex inspections develop a complete inventory of all installed ventilation equipment (the Ex register) accompanied by a separate report for each piece of equipment detailing its location, suitability for the hazardous area zone, Ex details and its operational condition.

Ex Inspections safeguard site safety to ensure client compliance with the ATEX Directive and their legal obligations under the Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (DSEAR).

1-2 Here the engineer is shown checking vibration levels as part of the commissioning instruction on an ATEX fan prior to operation in a hazardous area industry ventilation application with potentially explosive atmosphere. As part of compliance to ATEX, both the end-user and installer of the fan must ensure they have installed and commissioned the fan as per the fan manufacturers IOM.

ATEX Fan Certification | the engineer is performing the annual maintenance check as per the fan manufacture IOM instructions to keep the ATEX certificate valid for safe and reliable ventilaton and air moving in an explosive atmosphere industry.

See more information about the Exstream range of fans – the first in the World certified to both Electrical & Non-Electrical (Mechanical) requirements of the ATEX IECEx Directive.

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Experts In Equipment for Explosive Atmospheres | Leaders in ATEX Innovation

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💡 Should you require technical support to enable the specification of energy-saving high performance doors to ensure Compliance with the ATEX Directive for safe use in explosive atmospheres and hazardous area locations please do not hesitate to contact us.

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LEADERS IN ATEX INNOVATION

TO THE HAZARDOUS AREA INDUSTRIES

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Hazardous areas, where concentrations of flammable gases, vapours or dusts can be present, pose extreme safety and operational challenges across project design, specification, construction and maintenance. With complex Explosion Protection concepts for equipment to be installed safely in hazardous areas, engineers must determine the most cost-effective method to mitigate the risks of potential explosion –  Thorne & Derrick working with their supply-chain ensure your optimal compliance with international standards such as IECEx, UKCA, ATEX and DSEAR regulations in the United Kingdom.

Since 1985 Thorne & Derrick have been supplying UK and international projects competitively with the most extensive range of Hazardous Area Lighting, Heating & Electrical Equipment – we can be trusted to specify and supply from stocks a comprehensive range of certified equipment for use in Explosive Atmospheres.

Your proactive problem solvers experienced in succession planning for the replacement of obsolete, non-conformant and legacy equipment in hazardous areas.

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The World’s First ATEX & IECEx Certified Portable Electric Heater

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Habitat Heating

Portable & Powerful Heating 

Rapidly Raising Ambient Temperatures To Accelerate Processes

Habitats provide engineered protection to workers which control environments to achieve safe working conditions in explosive atmospheres and enable critical maintenance work on an oil or gas facility – this supports composite repairs and pipe wrapping to be carried out.

Today, aging asset infrastructure requires expensive maintenance, repair and asset life-extension programs which in turn requires compliant, efficient and cost-effective maintenance products to enable safe infrastructure repairs.

The safe space heating and air warming of habitats in explosive atmospheres using electric heaters improves worker comfort and productivity while accelerating the curing processes in onshore and offshore low temperature conditions.

The Bulldog Heater is now currently being used on assets owned and operated by some of the largest international O&G companies including BP, Shell, Apache and Total.

Successful Offshore Trials

Following extensive North Sea trials and scrutiny by ATEX Compliance Inspectors the Bulldog Heater has been adopted by several oil and gas E&P companies and their fabric maintenance contractors due to reduced weight and compact design – the advanced portability assists mobility for ladder, scaffold and tower working reducing incident or accident risks.

The Bulldog Heater manufactured by EXHEAT and UK Distributed by Thorne & Derrick provides portable but powerful heating to warm-up the workspace and with ATEX & IECEx Certifications protects personnel working in hazardous areas where the potential presence of flammable hydrocarbon gases poses serious potential risk of explosion.

Consequently, Bulldog has received Offshore Inspection Release Notices for several projects and is now accepted as the industry standard temporary and portable electric heater for hazardous areas in the oil and gas sector.

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The Bulldog Heater Specification

Hazardous Area Classification: Zone 1 or Zone 2 (IIA & IIB T3 T4)

T Class: T3 or T4 Temperature Class Heaters

Rating: Up To 6kW

Voltage: Single Phase 110V to 277V | Three-Phase 380V to 690V 50/60Hz

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Electrical & Process Heating Experts

Thorne & Derrick are Electrical & Process Heating Experts with over 35 years’ experience in providing optimised and customised electric heating solutions to the industrial, hazardous area and explosive atmosphere industries.

Our extensive and complete range of heaters includes: Heat Trace Cables & Systems | Air Warmers | Immersion Heaters | Process Heaters | Portable Heaters | Drums | IBC Containers | Gas Bottles | Heated Hoses | Silicone Heaters.

We provide Room Heat Loss & Space Heating Calculations to generate specifications for the most cost effective and energy efficient heating solutions that are fit for purpose and compliant with hazardous area zone classifications including  IECEx and ATEX.

We design and supply from the largest UK stocks commercial heat tracing systems for pipework frost protection, roof gutter heating for snow melting, ramp heating for snow/ice prevention and hot water temperature maintenance.

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