TY - JOUR A1 - Wu, Dejian A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Huang, W. A1 - Wei, A. A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Wu, W. T1 - Inhibition effect of N2/CO2 blends on the minimum explosion concentration of agriculture and coal dusts JF - Powder Technology 399 (2022) 117195 N2 - Minimum explosion concentration (MEC) of three agriculture dusts and two coal dusts was studied via a 20-L explosion chamber to reveal the role of gaseous inhibitors. Both active method (CO2 diluting air) and passive method (CO2 replacing O2) were used. The TG and DTG thermal analysis tests were conducted to study the pyrolysis and combustion characteristics of dust samples. An alternative explosion criterion based on combustion duration time was used to determine MEC, and compared with the standardized overpressure method. Under 10-kJ ignition condition, as oxygen mole fraction (XO2) decreased from 21% to 10%, MEC of agriculture dusts and coal dusts respectively increased by around 5 times and 2 times. The active inerting method with a lower N2/CO2 ratio was found to have a better suppression effect on the explosion of the five carbonaceous dusts because the blend has a higher specific heat and a lower oxygen diffusion rate. KW - CO2/N2 ratio KW - Explosion criterion KW - Combustion kinetics KW - Inerting effect KW - Explosion characteristics PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2022.117195 SN - 0032-5910 VL - 399 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-55013 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wu, W. A1 - Wei, A. A1 - Huang, W. A1 - Zhao, Peng A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Krause, Ulrich A1 - Wu, Dejian T1 - Experimental and theoretical study on the inhibition effect of CO2/N2 blends on the ignition behavior of carbonaceous dust clouds JF - Process Safety and Environmental Protection N2 - Gaseous inhibitors are used in many industries for the explosion prevention of combustible dusts, mitigating the potential hazard to humans, properties and environments. This work experimentally and theoretically studied the inerting effect of gaseous inhibitors on the ignition process of dust clouds in O2/N2/CO2 atmospheres, with an emphasis on the role of the CO2/N2 ratio. 10 different combustible carbonaceous dusts were selected, including grain dust, biomass dust and coal dust. Experimental results showed that the inhibition effect of CO2/N2 is closely related to the ignition mechanism of dust clouds. Specifically, a higher ratio of CO2/N2 yields a stronger inhibition effect on the ignition process of dust samples with relatively low volatile matter contents predominated by heterogeneous ignition. In addition, two novel steady-state ignition mechanism models were developed to interpret the experimental observations. Maxwell-Stefan equations were used to describe the diffusivity in the ternary O2/N2/CO2 gas mixtures. The analytical results were in good agreement with the experimental data of the minimum ignition temperature of dust cloud (MITC) in oxygen-lean atmospheres. The mechanism modelling can be used to estimate the critical ignition temperature of all carbonaceous dust clouds with a wide range of volatile matter content under different inert atmospheres, which will provide a reference for the explosion hazard assessment of dust posed by a hot surface in the process industries. KW - CO2/N2 ratio KW - Inerting effect KW - Volatile matter content KW - MITC KW - Mechanism model PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2021.07.005 SN - 0957-5820 VL - 153 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-53662 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -