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Solid inertants and their use in dust explosion prevention and mitigation
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A review of the use of inert dusts to reduce the risk of dust explosions through both prevention and mitigation schemes is presented in this paper, with appropriate reference to the work of other researchers.Abstract:
This paper is a review of the use of inert dusts to reduce the risk of dust explosions through both prevention and mitigation schemes. The review is conducted by referring primarily to the research results of the author and his colleagues in this area, with appropriate reference to the work of other researchers. A functional distinction is first made between inerting and suppression by explaining each term within the contexts of explosion prevention and explosion mitigation, respectively. The use of solid inertants is then described in terms of the various inhibitor and situation-specific parameters that can influence their effectiveness. Finally, application examples of the research results are given for research laboratories, test facilities, design engineers, and industrial practitioners.read more
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Dust explosions–Cases, causes, consequences, and control
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the state-of-the-art of dust explosion state of the art, and present the ways available to prevent dust explosion, and on cushioning the impact of a dust explosion by venting when the accident does take place.
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Application of inherent safety principles to dust explosion prevention and mitigation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explicitly link the inherent safety principles of minimization, substitution, moderation and simplification with strategies for dust explosion prevention and mitigation, and present a brief review of inherent safety and its basic principles.
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Effects of particle size, dust concentration and dust-dispersion-air pressure on rock dust inertant requirement for coal dust explosion suppression in underground coal mines
Sikandar Azam,Devi Prasad Mishra +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of important parameters, such as, dust particle size, dust concentration and dust-dispersion-air pressure on rock dust inertant requirement for suppressing coal dust explosion using a Godbert-Greenwald (GG) furnace were examined.
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Methane/coal dust/air explosions and their suppression by solid particle suppressing agents in a large-scale experimental tube
TL;DR: In this paper, coal dust and the suppressing agent were injected into the experimental tube by the dust dispersion units, and a self-sustained detonation wave characterized by the existence of a transverse wave was propagated in the coal dust/air mixtures.
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Suppression of wood dust explosion by ultrafine magnesium hydroxide
Chuyuan Huang,Xianfeng Chen,Bihe Yuan,Hongming Zhang,Huaming Dai,Song He,Ying Zhang,Yi Niu,Shifei Shen +8 more
TL;DR: The experimental results show that explosion flame of wood dust is obviously suppressed by physical and chemical effects of Mg(OH)2 powders, and the suppression effect of nano-Mg( OH)2 is better than that of micron-MG(OH), under same mass fractions.
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