Prevention and mitigation of dust and hybrid mixture explosions

Process Safety Progress

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-21

  Amyotte, Paul ^a   Lindsay, Matthew ^a   Domaratzki, Ruth ^a   Marchand, Neil ^a   Di Benedetto, Almerinda ^b   Russo, Paola ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dust explosions; Hybrid mixtures; Inherent safety

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS; BURNING VELOCITY; CHEMICAL SPECIES; COMBUSTIBLE DUST; DUST EXPLOSION; DUST EXPLOSIONS; FINE PARTICLES; FLAMMABLE GAS; GAS CONCENTRATION; HYDROCARBON GAS; INHERENT SAFETY; LOWER FLAMMABILITY LIMITS; MODELING STUDIES; POLYETHYLENE POWDER; PROCESS INDUSTRIES; RISK OF EXPLOSIONS; SIZE FRACTION; TEST MATRIX;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DUST; ETHYLENE; EXPLOSIVES; FIREDAMP; FLAMMABILITY; HEXANE; MIXTURES; PROPANE;

EXPLOSIONS;

EID: 76349093174     PISSN: 10668527     EISSN: 15475913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prs.10333     Document Type: Article

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