Industrial Fire Prevention

Ducking Disaster By Elevating Safety 7th November 2022 Online Editor Bucket elevators are found in many industries, both inside and outside of plants Explosion protection systems play a key role in keeping bucket elevators operating safely Keep your bucket elevators safe against combustible dust explosions, cautions Filip Ďurica Bucket elevators and other vertical conveyors are part of the agriculture and grain industries and many other industries. They can be installed outside, inside or both, thanks to their d...

Combustion concerns Fume and dust management in grinding and welding operations demand careful system designs By Travis Haynam November 7, 2022 Article Welding Join Discussion When collecting dust and fumes in a manufacturing environment, not only does the system you use have to draw harmful materials away from operators, it needs to do so in a manner that safely guards against the risk of explosions or fire in the dust or fume collector. Weld fume rarely is explosive, but a lot of the weld fume is combustible; in other words, though it is at little risk of creating an explosion, there is a risk of starting a fire due to sparks entering the system. Grinding, on the other hand, can create a very ex...

Industry Insights brought to you by Powder and Buld Solids https://www.powderbulksolids.com/explosion-protection-safety/how-many-dust-explosions-happen-each-year How Many Dust Explosions Happen Each Year? Dr. Chris Cloney, PEng, managing director and lead researcher at DustEx Research Ltd, and runs dustsafetyscience.com, dustsafetyacademy.com, and dustsafetyprofessionals.com Dust explosions are largely unreported or misreported events Chris Cloney, PEng, managing director and lead researcher, DustEx Research Ltd | Nov 01, 2022   Ever since starting our incident reporting work at DustSafeyScience.com, this practical question of lives touched by combustible dust incidents has always loomed in the back of my mind. The challenge of increasing dust explosion awareness can be highlighted by a quote first published in German by Beyersdorfer (1925) 1 and more recently translated by the late Dr. Rolf Eckhoff (2003) 2 : “The first [question]--asked by most people--was, “...