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Dust Explosion Quantitative Risk Management for Nontraditional Dusts
The current paper describes an approach for dust explosion quantitative risk management of the following nontraditional particulate fuel systems: nanomaterials having particles with dimensions between 1 and 100 nm, flocculent (fibrous) materials characterized by a length-to-diameter ratio rather than a particle diameter, and hybrid mixtures consisting of a combustible dust and a flammable gas (or a combustible dust wetted with a flammable solvent). Experimental results are considered as input to a quantitative risk management framework so as to provide a comprehensive procedure to analyze, assess and control the likelihood and consequences of explosions of nontraditional dusts. Using concepts drawn from previous studies, the framework consists of three main components: a new combined safety management protocol, use of the CFD (computational fluid dynamics) software DESC (Dust Explosion Simulation Code) and FTA (Fault Tree Analysis) to determine explosion consequences and likelihood, respectively, and application of the hierarchy of controls (inherent, engineered and procedural safety) to achieve residual risk reduction.
Dust Explosion Quantitative Risk Management for Nontraditional Dusts
The current paper describes an approach for dust explosion quantitative risk management of the following nontraditional particulate fuel systems: nanomaterials having particles with dimensions between 1 and 100 nm, flocculent (fibrous) materials characterized by a length-to-diameter ratio rather than a particle diameter, and hybrid mixtures consisting of a combustible dust and a flammable gas (or a combustible dust wetted with a flammable solvent). Experimental results are considered as input to a quantitative risk management framework so as to provide a comprehensive procedure to analyze, assess and control the likelihood and consequences of explosions of nontraditional dusts. Using concepts drawn from previous studies, the framework consists of three main components: a new combined safety management protocol, use of the CFD (computational fluid dynamics) software DESC (Dust Explosion Simulation Code) and FTA (Fault Tree Analysis) to determine explosion consequences and likelihood, respectively, and application of the hierarchy of controls (inherent, engineered and procedural safety) to achieve residual risk reduction.
Dust Explosion Quantitative Risk Management for Nontraditional Dusts
Hossain, M. Nur (author) / Amyotte, Paul R. (author) / Khan, Faisal I. (author) / Abuswer, Meftah A. (author) / Skjold, Trygve (author) / Morrison, Luke S. (author)
2013
6 Seiten, 3 Bilder, 12 Quellen
Conference paper
English
Dusting down: the explosion risks from dusts used in industry
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