NEW REVISED VDI GUIDELINE 3673 PRESSURE RELEASE OF DUST EXPLOSIONS

The VDI Guideline 3673 ''Pressure Release of Dust Explosions'' publish ed in June 1979 [1] describes one of the possible constructional prote ctive measures against the effect of dust explosions and provides deta ils on the venting area requirements of vessels and silos. Thanks to t he results of extensive explosion trials conducted in the last ten yea rs on the problems addressed above, important gaps in our knowledge ha ve been filled and new findings gained which have made a revision of t he above guideline necessary. The contents of the new version are repo rted and attention drawn to modifications compared with the first vers ion.