User Manual

4 Supplementary Installation and Operating Instructions BM 102 ATEX
General safety information
These Supplementary Instructions may only be used in conjunction with the standard Installation
and Operating Instructions for the BM 102 level gauge. If you do not have these standard
Instructions, please contact your nearest KROHNE office.
Special regulations are applicable to the use of equipment in hazardous locations, and these are
described in these Supplementary Instructions (supplied only with “Ex” devices).
The information given in these Instructions contains only the data relevant to explosion protection.
The technical details given in the standard Installation and Operating Instructions apply
unchanged unless excluded or superseded by these Supplementary Instructions.
Standards / Approvals
In compliance with European Directive 94/9 EC (ATEX 100a), the level gauges
described in these Supplementary Instructions are, in conformity with European
Standards EN 50014, EN 50020 and EN 50284, certified for use in hazardous
locations by the KEMA certification body under KEMA 00 ATEX 1101 X.
It is absolutely necessary that the details contained in this approval certificate, together with its
boundary conditions, are observed.
The level gauges of the BM 102 series are suitable for use in explosive atmospheres of all
flammable substances of Gas Groups IIA, IIB und IIC (with the exception of the cases named in
these Supplementary Instructions) and for applications requiring Category 1G, 1/2G, 1/2D, 2G or
2D equipment.
Assembly, installation, start-up and maintenance may only be carried out by "personnel trained
in explosion protection"!