Hazardous Locations / Oil & Gas

At Douglas Electrical Components, we provide explosion proof electrical fittings such as electrical feedthroughs, explosion proof wire seals, and wire bushings for hazardous locations in custom and standard packages. We understand the critical role these explosion-proof electrical fittings play in ensuring the safety of operations. Our products include fully packaged and cured epoxy designed for both hermetic vacuum and positive pressure environments. All our explosion proof seals are engineered to prevent the risk of electric equipment sparking that may cause catastrophic incidents in hazardous areas. We help customers to improve their legacy designs featuring cement-based seals that are prone to cracking and failure over time with durable and resilient explosion-proof seals.

Our design capabilities allow us to offer both the mechanical hermetic seal against the explosive atmosphere and reliable process sealing in applications that experience pressurized environments, such as compressors, cryogenics, hydraulics, pumps, level transmitters, and instrumentation.

Custom Explosion Proof Electrical Seals for Hazardous Locations

We partner with our customers to develop, design, and approve custom explosion proof seals for hazardous locations. We employ epoxy technology to create high-density explosion proof feedthroughs in compact mechanical packages. We take into account the conditions of your hazardous location to ensure the safety of these electrical connections. We can customize these explosion proof conduit seals in terms of wires, cables, connectors, circuit boards, fiber, or some combination thereof.

Partnering with Douglas Electrical Components for your custom explosion proof seals means ensuring compliance with industry standards on safety and performance. Our hermetic seals for hazardous locations comprise radial O-rings, threaded connections, ANSI/ASME flanges, direct cast into customer housings, and custom machined parts. We use epoxy resins for creating explosion proof seals for our connectors that are made from stainless steel and specialty alloys.

Our hermetic feedthroughs are designed for various temperature and pressure environments. For example, Douglas can fabricate custom designed explosion proof feedthroughs for LNG storage and transportation systems.

UL1203 Standard Explosion Proof Wire Bushings

Douglas Electrical Components offers the standard UL1203 Class I Division 1 explosion-proof wire bushings for use in hazardous locations. This type of sealing allows customers to save time and effort on the field by hermetically sealing electrical connections for transducers, transmitters, and instrumentation through the conduit. With the epoxy already sealed within the fitting, installers save time and effort by dropping in a wire bushing to meet the safety requirements.

We currently provide our UL1203 standard explosion proof wire bushings in the following specifications.

Customers can select the wire type, gauge, color, and length on both ends of the explosion proof wire bushing. Our team can help meet the wire density parameters based on the selected options.