This year’s PCN Europe Award went to Pepperl+Fuchs for their innovative Dynamic Arc Recognition and Termination (DART) Technology and its implementation. DART is on its best way to becoming an accepted standard technology in the process industry. The innovative approach to intrinsic safety offers major benefits for system architects and plant operators alike. Not only is it much easier to certify the intrinsic safety of a circuit, DART also provides considerably more power to drive field devices within explosion hazardous areas and allows longer cable distances. This greatly increases installation options and opens a completely new range of applications. DART Technology, which is also known as ‘Power-I’ and driven by a consortium of 13 companies, enables high power levels while maintaining ignition protection intrinsic safety (I.S.) – the safest way to protect plants in hazardous areas from unintended ignitions and explosions. DART Fieldbus is made for hazardous area Zone 1 and gas group IIC. It is certified “by the book” through PTB, the German Metrology Institute, according to the standard that is well-known by all hazardous area specialists: IEC 60079-11. And this means the highest degree of protection in hazardous area Zone 1 through intrinsic safety.
PCN Europe AWARD
