Does your facility have a dust problem: Methods for evaluating dust explosion hazards

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 837-846

  Davis, Scott G ^a   Hinze, Peter C ^a   Hansen, Olav R ^a   Van Wingerden, Kees ^a  

^a GEXCON US   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust explosion; Dust explosion simulation code (DESC); Explosion modeling; Process safety; Risk assessment; Risk reducing measures

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA; ALL-HAZARDS; AREA CLASSIFICATION; ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUE; BASIC ELEMENTS; CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE; DUST CLOUDS; DUST DISPERSION; DUST EXPLOSION; ELECTROSTATIC SPARKS; EXPLOSIBILITY; EXPLOSION HAZARDS; EXPLOSION PREVENTION; EXPLOSION-SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS; FIRE AND EXPLOSION; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; HIGH PROBABILITY; HIGH-RISK AREAS; HOT SURFACE; IGNITIBILITY; IGNITION PROBABILITY; IGNITION SOURCE; INERTING; LOCAL DAMAGE; LOW PROBABILITY; MITIGATING MEASURES; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; PROCESS HAZARD ANALYSIS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; PROCESS SAFETY; PROTECTIVE MEASURES; RISK ANALYSIS METHODS; SELF IGNITION; SEVESO II DIRECTIVE; SMOLDERING COMBUSTION;

CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DUST; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT PROTECTION; ELECTRIC IGNITION; ELECTRIC SPARKS; EQUIPMENT; EXPLOSIVES; FORESTRY; HAZARDS; PROBABILITY; RATING; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TERMINALS (ELECTRIC);

EXPLOSIONS;

EID: 80053236098     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2011.06.010     Document Type: Article

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