dust explosion Articles
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Hi Newsletter Volume.1 Issue.2
Headlining October / November 2010: 1- Petro Chemicals Continued….. - Processed Raw Materials for Resin Production, a Dust Explosive Risk 2- Rules should be Observed When Designing a Plant: - The Equipment and facilities design; 3- CLEAN & SAFE DEVELOPMENT: - ANOTHER SUCCESS STORY Dust… Fume…. Odors… Oil Mist… Smoke…. Problem? 4- In The ...
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Combustible Dust: It Doesn’t Take Much
A dust accumulation of 1/32 of an inch deep—about the thickness of a dime—covering just five percent of a room’s surface area doesn’t sound like much, but it’s enough to cause a catastrophic explosion, according to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Although good engineering and safety practices to prevent dust explosions have existed for decades, ...
By SafetyNow
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Dangers of nanotechnology: potential fire concerns and safety frameworks
The benefits of engineering of functional systems at the nanometre-scale as one of the key technologies of the 21st century almost always imply grave risks. The increasing speed of nanotechnology commercialisation and development has apparently outstripped the study of health and safety data. A potential hazard of nanopowders that appears to have received little attention so far is their ...
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Reducing the risk of dust explosion hazards
In the wake of recent tragic and highly publicized dust explosions, companies are asking, 'Could that happen here?' and 'What can I do to prevent such an incident at my facility?' One approach is to manage dust explosion hazards as though they were subject to OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements (29 CFR 1910.119), even though dust hazards often are not covered under this ...
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CAV - Dosing, Conveying, Mixing - Avoidance of Explosions Using Nitrogen
Inertisation in Bulk Material Process Engineering With the Aid of Self-Generated Nitrogen Bulk material is used in many sectors of industry. The granular or powdery solids have the property of being easily pourable and are also used as precursors in the chemical, pharmaceutical and plastics industries. Bulk materials include granulates and pellets as well as powdery colour pigments and fillers. ...
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CAV - Nitrogen in the production of additives for the Casting of Metals
Nitrogen Atmosphere for Explosion Prevention ASK Chemicals, a supplier of foundry chemicals and tools for the foundry industry, overlays its solids mixer for mixing the additives with nitrogen, thereby avoiding the risk of dust explosions. Nitrogen is produced directly on-site to ensure its constant supply. Additives play an important role as excipients in the foundry industry. They are used in ...
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How To Avoid Dust Explosions In Your Baghouse
A massive fire and explosion in the dust collection system of a New Hampshire wood pellet manufacturer demonstrates the need for adequate system design to prevent combustible dust explosions in general industry. We recently published a news article on Environmental-Expert.com about OSHA’s enforcement actions concerning last year’s combustible dust fire and explosion at the New ...
By Baghouse.com
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Bad housekeeping can bring unthinkable consequences
What’s at Stake Some people can’t stand a mess, while others leave an evidence trail of poor housekeeping everywhere they go. But in the workplace, bad housekeeping can have consequences that go far beyond creating an image of a sloppily run, unprofessional operation. What’s the Danger Poor housekeeping causes a wide range of injuries and fatalities, ranging from painful ...
By SafetyNow
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Classifying Hazardous Areas
The IEC is composed of approximately 40 countries including the United States. The purpose of the IEC is to establish standards for a wide variety of electrical products with the intent of encouraging international trade. The IEC has assigned a technical committee, TC 31, to develop recommendations covering equipment, testing procedures and classification standards for areas where the potential ...
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WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF WATERPROOF ABRASIVE PAPER?-2019
Water sandpaper, also known as waterproof abrasive paper, is named because it can be sanded in water when used. Let's share some of the advantages of waterproof sandpaper this time. Waterproof abrasive paper is a kind of coated abrasive tool, which is made of water-proof latex paper or waterproof kraft paper, using various resins as binders and firmly adhering alumina abrasives or silicon ...
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Explosion Venting Strategies for Your Dust Collection System
A combustible dust explosion is a serious hazard for a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, processing, metalworking, chemicals, and more. This hazard can materialize in many areas of a plant, but is more likely to occur at the dust collection system. Implementing proper explosion venting in your dust collection system can reduce your risk for a hazardous explosion. The first step ...
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Wet dust collection for Titanium - Case study
Whirl Wet collection system chosen to capture titanium and other metal dust. A diversified Fortune Top 10 company, and long-time user of Tri-Mer gas and particulate control technology for its facilities worldwide, chose a 4200 cfm Whirl Wet Dust Metal Collection System to capture titanium dust emissions from machining operations. Whirl Wet captures 97% of particles 3.0 microns and larger and 98% ...
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Dust monitoring of PVC dust to avoid an explosive atmosphere
Customer: Manufacturer of PVC powder Material: PVC powder Installation: Above the possible dust source Function: Dust monitoring to avoid an ATEX area APPLICATION At a PVC powder manufacturing site, large bags are filled with powder in the filling plant. The company’s ATEX guidelines state that DustEx zone 22 is defined in the area of 5 m around the filling plant. The mixture of PVC ...
By ENVEA
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SO2 gas sensor - Sulphur Dioxide Detector
Sulfur dioxide detector is a gas sensor that uses the SO2 sensor probe to detect the concentration of SO2 gas in the air environment. Constant monitoring of gas concentration and flameproof design. A sulfur dioxide detector can be configured with a single controller, or multiple devices can be configured with one or more hosts. At the same time through the SO2 sensor multi-point centralized ...
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Wet dust collection for Chemical powders - Case study
Industrial Dust Collector Systems capture chemical powders. A multinational chemical manufacturer specified Tri-Mer Industrial dust collector technology for a mixing and blending operation. The system provides 99%+ collection efficiency over a wide range of micron sizes. Whirl Wet industrial dust collection is a leading choice in chemical and pharmaceutical environments, where operation is ...
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Wet dust collection for Chemical powders - Case study
Industrial Dust Collector Systems capture chemical powders. A multinational chemical manufacturer specified Tri-Mer Industrial dust collector technology for a mixing and blending operation. The system provides 99%+ collection efficiency over a wide range of micron sizes. Whirl Wet industrial dust collection is a leading choice in chemical and pharmaceutical environments, where operation is ...
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New shredder boosts BPR’s destruction of confidential waste
Waste management experts BPR Group has invested in a leading-edge shredder to improve the scope and security of its confidential paper destruction service. The company has installed the renowned UNTHA RS100 shredder at its Rainham facility in Greater London, enabling BPR to bring its shredding operation in-house rather than contract it out to a third party. BPR is now generating revenues of ...
By Untha UK Ltd
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Sludge reduction treatment in urban sewage treatment plant
Sludge is the sediment produced by wastewater treatment, including solid particles, such as sludge, sand, fiber, animal and plant residues and their solidified flakes, various colloids, adsorbed organic matter and metal elements, microorganisms, bacteria, insect eggs, weed seeds and other solids embedded in wastewater. The sewage sludge of the municipal sewage treatment plant is mainly composed ...
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Vacuuming Wood Dust Can be Hazardous
It’s well known that wood dust is highly combustible, but the practice of removing it with vacuum trucks can also be dangerous, because of the potential buildup of static electricity. WorkSafeBC has issued a bulletin stating that “static electricity discharges can ignite wood dust and therefore must be eliminated or adequately controlled during vacuuming.” When wood dust or ...
By SafetyNow
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Donald Blankenship Charged in Mine Disaster
Former chief executive of Massey Energy Company, Donald Blankenship, was charged for multiple violations of safety rules and deceit of federal inspectors that ultimately led to the death of 29 coal miners during a single incident in 2010; the deadliest mine incident since 1970. Indicted on four criminal counts by a federal grand jury in the Upper Big Branch disaster, Blankenship faces a maximum ...
By SafetyNow
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