Industrial Fire Prevention

From WoodworkingNetwork.com How to Prevent Comdust Combustible Sawdust - How to Protect Your Workers Your Business Posted: 04/01/2015 4:04PM EDITOR’S NOTE: This information was presented in the webcast “Combustible Sawdust - How to Protect Your Workers Your Business,” which broadcast in March. Presented by Air Handling’s Jamison Scott, and sponsored by GreCon, the full webcast can be heard on-demand at WoodworkingNetwork.com/webcasts .  Combustible dust continues to make headlines. One of the top health and safety issues in the woodworking industry, it impacts companies of all sizes. OSHA defines combustible dust as “fine particles that present an explosion hazard when suspended in the air, in certain conditions.” For a combustible dust explosion to occur, five factors must be present: fuel (combustible dust), ignition (heat or spark), oxygen (air), dispersion (dust suspension) and confinement.  Removal of any ...

Combustible Dust: From Sparks to Fires to Explosions - Identifying Precursors to Catastrophic Events  From OHS-- Occupational Health and Safety Since the 2009 introduction of OSHA’s proposed combustible dust rulemaking following the 2008 Imperial Sugar Refinery catastrophic dust explosion, a regulation has not been finalized. In the interim, Congress has acted with the February 2013 reintroduction of a proposed combustible dust bill, “Worker Protection Against Combustible Dust Explosions and Fires Act (H.R. 691),” which directs OSHA to immediately publish an interim combustible dust regulation. A problem arises in both the proposed OSHA combustible dust rulemaking process and reintroduced combustible dust bill in that neither acknowledges the multitude of “near miss” combustible dust related fires, precursors to catastrophic dust explosions and flash fires. In 2013 a preliminary analysis by the Combustible Dust Policy Institute (CDPI) of National Fire Incident Rep...

Risks in the bud: to explore the use of modern spark detection and extinguishment systems From International Tobacco Online, an article on applying modern spark detection systems to the tobacco/cigarette manufacturing process. For more detailed information on Spark Detection and Extinguishing Systems please see our website: www.IndustrialFirePrevention.com Tobacco online tobacco "Tobacco," reported in the processing and transportation process large amount of dust, fermentation and friction so that its temperature rises to unsafe values, and generate sparks.   The vast majority of tobacco processing are using modern equipment, once by its cause a fire, will cause huge losses to the enterprise. To solve these problems, at present, some advanced tobacco factory has been installed and use the spark detection and extinguishment systems. Dust generated by the first process of the tobacco processing flavored or feeding easier to handle, less likely to spark.   Eve...

Industrial Fire Prevention - Spark Detection and Extinguishment : Equipment Protect your plant, production, and personnel from combustible dust fires and explosions. The GreCon Spark Detection and Extinguishing System can help prevent fires in your process conveying and dust collection systems. For more information on Prevention, Mitigation, and Protection visit www.IndustrialFirePrevention.com . For information on Combustible Dust visit www.IndustrialFirePrevention.Blogspot.com . Contact: Jeff Nichols Industrial Fire Prevention, LLC 770-266-7223

From our good friends at GreCon, a series of combustible dust related articles titled "Combustible Dust Explosions in the News" Dust Explosion News | GreCon Spark Detection - Extinguishing Systems Combustible dust can be destructive and very dangerous. ... comments on issues related to combustible dust such as hazard recognition, assessment , .... OSHA estimates 30000 U.S. facilities may be at risk for combustible dust incidents. ... www.grecon-us.com/html/ dust _explosions.htm -