DUST EXPLOSION MITIGATION USING Q-ROHR AND EXKOP

Authors
Citation
Wj. Stevenson, DUST EXPLOSION MITIGATION USING Q-ROHR AND EXKOP, Process safety progress, 17(3), 1998, pp. 184-189
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Chemical
Journal title
ISSN journal
10668527
Volume
17
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
184 - 189
Database
ISI
SICI code
1066-8527(1998)17:3<184:DEMUQA>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Dust explosions have been with us for a long time. The first record of a dust explosion occurred in Turin, Italy, on December 14, 1785 [1]. The detailed record of this event is left to us by Count Morozzo. The event took place in Mr. Giacomelli's bakery. We know from his account that the weather was unseasonably dry, that a boy who worked in the ba kery was using a shovel to stir and transfer the flour to a chute from a store room to the bakery, and he had a lighted lamp to work by. The rest, as the saying goes, is history. No one was killed and the build ing was saved by the sagacious fact of having plenty of windows. Since that first record, of course, there have been many explosions with mu ch loss of life and significant economic consequences.