Inferno: Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar
YouTube - Inferno: Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar Shared via AddThis INFERNO. This is a very instructive video and case study from the US Chemical Safety Board entitled: Inferno - Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar. While this video pertains to sugar dust, it applies to most any combustible dust application. The Imperial Sugar plant used many of the same processes and machinery used in many process industries, such as grinding and milling, belt and screw conveyors, bucket elevators, dust collectors and storage silo's. This video explains in detail how process, conveying, dust collection, housekeeping and safety system design, or lack of, all impacted the fires and explosions in this process - that killed 14 workers, injured dozens of others, and shut the plant down for an extended period of time. This tragedy exposes the critical need in our process industries for inherently safe design along ...