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title: Applications
description: "Pressurisation can provide explosion protection for a wide range of instrumentation or electrical equipment – there is no limit to size, within reason, which can be accommodated. Typical examples are motors, control & instrumentation cabinets, oil drilling control consoles, visual…"
url: "https://www.eicstech.com/kb/pressurisation-ex-p/basics-on-pressurisation-application/"
updated: "2022-06-01"
category: Explosion Proof Basics / Pressurisation (Ex p)
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# Applications

Pressurisation can provide explosion protection for a wide range of instrumentation or electrical equipment – there is no limit to size, within reason, which can be accommodated.

Typical examples are motors, control & instrumentation cabinets, oil drilling control consoles, visual display unit (VDU’s), gas analysis equipment, control rooms and switch rooms.

There is a maximum practical size or weight limit for flameproof equipment (in particular rotating machines) above which handling becomes difficult. A pressurised machine would be significantly lighter than a flameproof machine of the same rating.

For applications such as analysers, there will be a **containment system** within the Ex p enclosure, which could be a source of release for flammable gas or vapour.