8.4.3 Ventilation
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8.4.3 Ventilation

  8.4.3.1 To ensure that any evolved hydrogen is expelled, battery compartments, lockers and containers should be exhausted from the highest point of the space and air supplied at a level below the top of the batteries.

  8.4.3.2 If mechanical means are employed to ventilate a battery compartment directly, then the components must not be a potential source of ignition. Reference should be made to the requirements of the ATEX Directive (EC Directive 94/9/EC concerned with equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres).

Parent topic: 8.4 Batteries
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