Industrial dust collection systems properly engineered for your facility enhance safety and efficiency by capturing airborne particles generated during dust-producing processes. This measure ensures ...

If explosion preventive measures alone cannot reduce the risk of a dust cloud explosion to an acceptable level, then explosion protection measures must be considered. Explosible dust clouds can be ...

New explosion isolation flap valves from IEP Technologies, part of the HOERBIGER Group, are a reliable and cost effective way to mitigate the risk of dust explosions propagating to upstream equipment.

According to recent research conducted by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), over 280 explosions and fires have resulted from the ignition of dusts or dust clouds in U.S.

First there is the shock wave, then follows the flame: Time is of the essence when it comes to preventing a catastrophe after an undesirable ignition has taken place inside a plant prone to explosions ...

Due to the growing awareness of combustible dust hazards and broader adoption of regulatory requirements to complete a dust hazard analysis (DHA), manufacturing facilities are increasing efforts to ...

Wood can burn. That's obvious. Wood chips and pellets belong to the important secondary fuels category in modern power plants, furnaces or heat generators. Yet it is still not common knowledge that ...

A group of House Democrats introduced legislation this week that aims to protect workers from combustible dust – a fire and explosion threat that has killed or injured hundreds in recent decades. Last ...

SAVANNAH, GA – In a final draft report released today, Chemical Safety Board investigators said the Feb. 7, 2008, deadly explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, GA, resulted from ...

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), an independent federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents, has released its final report, safety recommendations and an accompanying ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - There were seven reported grain dust explosions at U.S. food and agricultural facilities in 2017, two more than in 2016 but still below the 10-year average of 9.3 explosions per ...

As a chemical engineer, Spencer Temples told MassLive that explosions are a major problem in his industry. “I’m personally from the chemical industry and it’s been the sleeping dragon in almost every ...