TY - JOUR A1 - Spitzer, Stefan A1 - Jankuj, V. A1 - Krietsch, Arne T1 - Comparative Study on Standardized Ignition Sources Part 2: Exploration of the Initial Igniting Volume of Standardized Ignition Sources for the Determination of Explosion Characteristics JF - Chemical Engineering Transactions N2 - There are several standardized ignition sources in use for the determination of explosion characteristics of gases, vapors and dusts. In the standards the ignition source is stated, but they vary in stating other characteristics like burning duration, energy or burning volume. Since heat is not visible under normal circumstances a Schlieren-Technique was used to make the full heating volume and not just the flames visible. While an earlier paper of the authors focused on the ignition energy and burning duration of four standardized ignition sources, this paper focuses on the initial igniting volume, the ratio between initial igniting volume and the test-vessel size and other phenomena that were observed with the Schlieren-Technique-. T2 - Loss Prevention CY - Prag, Czechia DA - 06.06.2022 KW - Ignition source KW - Hybrid Mixtures KW - 20L-sphere PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.3303/CET2290087 SN - 2283-9216 VL - 2022 IS - 90 SP - 517 EP - 522 PB - AIDIC CY - Milano AN - OPUS4-55028 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Spitzer, Stefan T1 - Comparative Study on Standardized Ignition Sources Part 2: Exploration of the Initial Igniting Volume of Standardized Ignition Sources for the Determination of Explosion Characteristics N2 - There are several standardized ignition sources in use for the determination of explosion characteristics of gases, vapors and dusts. In the standards the ignition source is stated, but they vary in stating other characteristics like burning duration, energy or burning volume. Since heat is not visible under normal circumstances a Schlieren-Technique was used to make the full heating volume and not just the flames visible. While an earlier paper of the authors focused on the ignition energy and burning duration of four standardized ignition sources, this paper focuses on the initial igniting volume, the ratio between initial igniting volume and the test-vessel size and other phenomena that were observed with the Schlieren-Technique. T2 - Loss Prevention CY - Prague, Czech Republic DA - 06.06.2022 KW - Ignition source KW - Hybrid Mixtures KW - 20L-sphere PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-55029 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jankuj, V. A1 - Spitzer, Stefan A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Bernatik, A. T1 - Safety of Alternative Energy Sources: a Review JF - Chemical Engineering Transactions N2 - The article summarizes a short review of the literature focused on safety in the field of alternative energy sources. With an increasing orientation towards sustainable and renewable energy sources, new technologies will come to the fore. These facts must be demonstrated in occupational health and safety. Several studies focused on alternative energy sources are mentioned and show the trends for the future. Especially in the area of hydrogen and battery technologies, systems should pay attention to acquisitions as a normal part of our lives. Safety research is essential for the acceptance of cleaner, efficient, and sustainable future. T2 - Loss Prevention CY - Prag, Czechia DA - 06.06.2022 KW - Safety KW - Alternative Energy Sources PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.3303/CET2290020 SN - 2283-9216 VL - 90 SP - 115 EP - 120 PB - AIDIC CY - Milano AN - OPUS4-55030 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spitzer, Stefan A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Benke, Alexander A1 - Cloney, C. A1 - D’Hyon, S. A1 - Dufaud, O. A1 - Dyduch, Z. A1 - Gabel, D. A1 - Geoerg, P. A1 - Heilmann, V. A1 - Jankuj, V. A1 - Jian, W. A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Mynarz, M. A1 - Norman, F. A1 - Skrinsky, J. A1 - Taveau, J. A1 - Vignes, A. A1 - Zakel, S. A1 - Zhong, S. T1 - 1st international round robin test on safety characteristics of hybrid mixtures JF - Journal of loss prevention in the process industries N2 - There is no applicable existing standard for the determination of safety characteristics for hybrid mixtures. While developing a new standard in a joint research project in Germany first results from parameter studies led to a standard procedure that can be adopted by laboratories that are already testing dusts in the so called 20L-sphere with as little additional effort as necessary. In fact, one of the main objectives of this research project was to keep modifications and adjustments from the generally accepted dust testing procedures as easy and minimal as possible so as to limit potential deviations from one laboratory to another. In this first round robin test on hybrid mixtures ever, with methane as gas component and a specific corn starch as dust sample, the practicality of the whole procedure, the scattering of the results and the deviation between the testing apparatuses is investigated. This paper summarizes the experimental procedure adopted and objectives of the first round-robin phase involving three of the four original German companies, plus volunteering laboratories from Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Poland and P.R. China. The results will have an impact on the new standard and may lead to robust data for later simulation purposes. KW - Hybrid mixtures KW - 20L-sphere KW - Round robin test KW - Turbulent combustion PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2022.104947 SN - 0950-4230 VL - 81 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-56516 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Recknagel, Christoph A1 - Spitzer, Stefan A1 - Hoppe, Johannes A1 - Wenzel, Norman A1 - Pirskawetz, Stephan T1 - Optimierung von Fugensystemen - Messtechnische Grundlagen zur Ermittlung realer Beanspruchungen in situ T2 - Berichte der Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen N2 - Voraussetzung zur Aufklärung von Fugenbewegungen in hochbeanspruchten Verkehrsflächen aus Beton ist ein neues, innovatives und sensitives Sensorsystem, welches unter den Bedingungen der Autobahnpraxis schnell und sicher in entsprechend beanspruchte Bereiche installiert werden kann und in der Lage ist, stabile und hochaufgelöste Bewegungen in mehrere Raumrichtungen zu erfassen. Das durch die BAM neu entwickelte Sensorsystem ist geeignet, um direkt in die Betonfahrbahndecke integriert zu werden und sowohl über saisonale Messbereiche als auch in hoher Auflösung entsprechende Messwerte online zu erfassen und bereit zu stellen. Das für diesen Zweck entwickelte innovative Sensorsystem kann direkt in die Rollspur auf beiden Seiten der Fuge eingebaut werden und ist dafür ausgelegt, Lkw-Überfahrungen zu widerstehen. Es ist schnell und präzise genug, um die realen Bewegungen in allen drei Raumachsen in Echtzeit erfassen zu können. Dieser Forschungsbericht beschreibt das Funktions- und Wirkschema des Sensorsystems und seine Validierung im Labor- und Feldmaßstab. Dabei wird insbesondere auch die praxisgerechte Einbau- und Nutzungsmethodik vorgestellt. Auflösungsvermögen, Robustheit und Nutzerfreundlichkeit werden am Beispiel einer Konzeptstudie auf dem Testgelände DuraBASt erprobt. Es werden grundlegende Hinweise auf den dringlichen Bedarf einer gebrauchsgerechten Beschreibung des realen Verhaltens des Bauwerks Betonstraße identifiziert. Die mit dem Sensorsystem gewonnenen Daten können eine Grundlage für die Konzeption einer performance-basierten Bewertung von Fugenfüllsystemen in Betondecken von Bundesautobahnen bieten. Sie sind geeignet, die Funktionsmechanismen der verschiedenen Betonfahrbahnkonstruktionen besser zu verstehen und zielgerichtet konstruktive und materialtechnische Optimierungen und Fortentwicklungen von Fugenkonstruktionen und Fugenfüllsystemen in gebrauchsbezogener Weise zu entwickeln. Durch weitere Datenerhebung, -fusion und -analyse können Instandsetzungsintervalle und Lebensdauerzyklen besser abgeschätzt und geplant werden. KW - Betonfahrbahndecke KW - Fugen KW - Quantifizierung realer Verformungen PY - 2021 SN - 978-3-95606-590-3 SN - 0943-9323 VL - Straßenbau Heft S 153 SP - 1 EP - 173 PB - Fachverlag NW in der Carl Ed. Schünemann KG CY - Bremen AN - OPUS4-54174 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Recknagel, Christoph A1 - Spitzer, Stefan A1 - Hoppe, Johannes A1 - Wenzel, Norman A1 - Pirskawetz, Stephan T1 - Innovative Sensorik für Fugensysteme T2 - Forschung kompakt 17/21 der Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen N2 - Die zielgerichtete Weiterentwicklung von Bauteilen und Konstruktionselementen im Straßenbau hochbeanspruchter Verkehrswege unserer Infrastruktur (Bundesfernstraßen) erfordert spezielle, bauteiladaptierte technische Möglichkeiten/Sensorik zur Quantifizierung des Gebrauchsverhaltens. Bei Fugen in Verkehrsflächen stellen insbesondere langsam und schnell ablaufende Plattendeformationen infolge jahreszeitlicher und verkehrlicher Beanspruchungen maßgebende Beanspruchungszustände dar. Eine Quantifizierung dieser Einwirkungen hilft bei der Weiterentwicklung sowie auch bei der Bewertung optimierter technischer Lösungen. In Forschung kompakt 17/21 „Innovative Sensorik für Fugensysteme“ wird eine neuartige, robuste Lösung der BAM zur Datenerfassung und Bauwerksmonitoring von hochbeanspruchten Verkehrsflächen aus Beton vorgestellt. KW - Betonfahrbahndecke KW - Fugen KW - Quantifizierung realer Verformungen PY - 2021 VL - 17 SP - 1 EP - 2 PB - Eigenverlag der BASt CY - BASt, Bergisch Gladbach AN - OPUS4-54115 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spitzer, Stefan A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Benke, Alexander A1 - Janovsky, B. A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Krietsch, Arne T1 - Influence of pre-ignition pressure rise on safety characteristics of dusts and hybrid mixtures JF - Fuel N2 - For the determination of the safety characteristics of dusts it is necessary to disperse the dust in the oxidating atmosphere (usually air). In the standard procedures for dusts this is realized by a partially evacuated explosion vessel (20L-sphere) in which the dust gets injected from a dust chamber pressurized with air. Shortly after that injection (60 ms) the dust cloud gets ignited under turbulent conditions, that are otherwise seen as almost ambient with 20 ◦C and about 1 bar (abs). While there has been a lot of research about the influence of the ignition delay time and the level of turbulence in the recent years little attention was paid to the pre–ignition pressure rise and the allowed variations in the standards. In the following work we showed that the allowed ranges for the pressures in the different dust standards influence the safety characteristics of dust alone severely. Even though hybrid mixtures are an emerging risk problem in an interconnected industry there is no standard for the determination of their safety characteristics. In this work it is shown that especially for the preparation of hybrid mixtures of flammable dust and gas the pressures after injection of the dust and the mixing procedure have a large influence on the composition of the tested mixtures and therefore on the safety characteristics. Considering both effects, wrong concentration of gas and wrong initial pressure, the discrepancy of safety characteristics from different facilities will be too big to applicable. The methods to overcome these weaknesses are also presented. KW - Hybrid mixtures KW - 20L-sphere KW - Pre-ignition pressure rise KW - Post-injection pressure drop KW - Safety characteristics KW - Mixing procedure PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-537358 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2021.122495 VL - 311 SP - 122495 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Niederlande AN - OPUS4-53735 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spitzer, Stefan A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Schröder, Volkmar T1 - Comparative study on standardized ignition sources used for explosion testing JF - Journal of loss prevention in the process industries N2 - For the determination of safety characteristics of gases, vapors and dusts different types of ignition sources are used in international standards and guidelines. The paper presents test results of a comparative calorimetric and visual study between four different types of ignition sources. The ignition procedures were analyzed visually with a high-speed camera and electric recordings. In addition to that, the influence of the electrode-orientation, -distance as well as ignition energy on the reproducibility of the exploding wire igniter was tested. The exploding wire is already in use for standardized determination of safety characteristics of gases, first tests on the suitability of the exploding wire igniter for dust testing have been carried out but are not standardized yet. Using the exploding wire, the ignition energy can be varied from 2 J to 10 000 J (2 x 5000 J) and thus it could be used for gases, vapors, dusts and hybrid mixtures. Moreover it can be used at high initial pressures and it is the only ignition source with an easily measurable ignition energy release. Furthermore, it does not introduce another chemical reaction into the system. Finally, a proposal for a standard ignition source for explosion tests on hybrid mixtures is derived from the test results. T2 - 13th International Symposium on Hazards, Prevention, and Mitigation of Industrial Explosions CY - Braunschweig, Germany DA - 27.07.2020 KW - Ignition source KW - Exploding wire KW - Hybrid mixtures KW - Safety characteristics determination PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2021.104516 SN - 0950-4230 VL - 71 IS - July SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-52548 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Spitzer, Stefan T1 - Influence of the pressure difference on the safety characteristics of dusts and potential ignition sources for hybrid mixtures N2 - In the standards for the determination of safety characteristics of dusts an initial pressure difference of 400 mbar (all: abs) is applied, that increases to 1013 mbar to achieve a homogeneous dust-air mixture. Since the measuring equipment accuracy is given with ± 0,1 bar the initial pressure could range somewhere between 300 and 500 mbar and the pressure increase between 500 and 700 mbar, leading to a testing pressure of 800 to 1200 mbar. This variation does not only affect the testing pressure but also the concentration of dust and the level of turbulence, leading to wrong values of Pmax, Kst and assigning them to wrong concentrations. When tests for hybrid mixtures are conducted there are more degrees of freedom leading to even higher variations. To overcome these variations a higher accuracy is demanded for hybrid mixture testing. Further, in this presentation four standardized ignition sources are presented. T2 - Global Dust Safety Conference CY - Halifax, Canada DA - 01.03.2021 KW - hybrid mixtures, ignition sources, safety characteristics PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-53557 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spitzer, Stefan A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Hecht, Kristin A1 - Gabel, D. A1 - Zakel, S. A1 - Krietsch, Arne T1 - Requirements for a Hybrid Dust-Gas-Standard: Influence of the Mixing Procedure on Safety Characteristics of Hybrid Mixtures JF - Fire N2 - While developing a standard for the determination of safety characteristics for hybrid mixtures the authors discovered, that, beside the ignition source, the mixing procedure is the main difference between the single-phase standards for dusts and gases. The preparation of hybrid mixtures containing a flammable gas and a flammable dust in the 20 L-sphere can be realized in different ways. Either the flammable gas is filled only in the sphere or only in the dust container or in both. In previous works, almost always the first method is applied, without giving any information on the accuracy of the gas mixtures. In this work the accuracy of the gas mixtures and the results of the tests applying two methods of mixing were studied. No significant influence of the mixing method itself on the safety characteristics explosion pressure pex and the normalized rate of pressure rise (K-value) was found. Obviously, homogenization of the gas mixtures can be obtained sufficiently by the turbulence that is caused during the injection from the dust container into the explosion chamber within a short time. However, the mixing procedure has a great influence on the accuracy of the gas amount of the mixtures obtained. Without modifying the 20 L-sphere by installing precise pressure sensors, assuring its tightness and performing gas analysis, it must be expected, that the accuracy of the gas mixtures is very low. This has a significant influence on the measured safety characteristics and may lead to unsafe facilities or unnecessary expensive safety measures. KW - Hybrid mixtures KW - 20 L-sphere KW - Pre-ignition pressure rise KW - Post-injection pressure drop KW - Safety characteristics PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-554610 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5040113 VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - MDPI CY - Basel AN - OPUS4-55461 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -