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Afternoon everyone,
I have a problem I'd like some advice on.
We have a room which we are using as a small paint mixing room. The ambient temperature is starting to drop and cause us real problems with the paint. We have no heating in the room and we need to get some heat in there. We also store solvent and solvent containing products in the room.
I have advised the Manager that we will need to look at intrinsically safe (ATEX compliant) electric heater (there is no boiler in the vicinity to run at heating system from).
There is forced ventilation in the room which provides sufficient air changes.
Am I correct in advising this?
Thanks
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Does the atmosphere warrant zoning as an ATEX zone?
You really need to be sure of this as once you do it will go way past the sort of heaters you fit!
If you are not sure on ATEX zoning, get someone who is.
It will affect many areas of your business, not just the heaters in the room, if you decide that this area is zoned.
First thing could be to stop wasting the heat by pumping the air out of the room via the ventilation, get some heat recovery in, and perhaps you won't need to heat it, and save some money on heating the rest of the building too?
Do you need to use solvent based paints?
Could you not stick a small wet heating system in with a local boiler?
How far is the nearest wet heating?
Is it really not viable to run it to the room?
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