Reading the Nameplate: IEC 60079-0:2026, Equipment Protection Levels, Marking, and IECEx versus ATEX

Deep End Era. Engineering with Sankalp · Oct 28, 2026 · 1h 8m

Rashid Al Mansoori's old junction box is back on the table, with a dozen nameplates beside it, collected over twenty-five years from equipment that has been replaced. Elena Petrova has to choose equipment for the hydrogen skid's Zone 2 envelope, and the vendor quotes contain markings she must check line by line. Rashid teaches her to read a nameplate aloud as a sentence, and then shows her why two very different-looking nameplates, one IECEx and one ATEX, can describe nearly the same box.

Chapters

00:00:00 Cold Open: A Box of Nameplates

00:04:12 What Part 0 Covers: Ex Equipment, Ex Components…