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In vielen Bereichen der Industrie und im verarbeitenden Gewerbe werden eine Vielzahl brennbarer Stäube gezielt oder ungewollt produziert, verarbeitet, transportiert oder anderweitig verwendet. Je nach Material- und Staubeigenschaften weisen diese eine teilweise sehr hohe Reaktivität auf. Es gilt weiterhin als allgemein bekannt, dass die Partikelgröße einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf das Brand- und Explosionsverhalten von Stäuben ausübt. Mit Abnahme der Partikelgröße nehmen die gefährlichen Auswirkungen im Falle einer Explosion und die Zündempfindlichkeit der Stäube zu. Aufgrund der veränderten Eigenschaften im Nanometerbereich hat die Produktion solcher Stäube mit sehr geringen Primärpartikelgrößen in den letzten Jahren zugenommen. Diese Entwicklung wird sich in den folgenden Jahren fortsetzen. Über das Brand- und Explosionsverhalten solcher Stäube war bis vor wenigen Jahren jedoch kaum bis wenig bekannt.
Aufgrund von Erfahrungen mit Stäuben mit Partikelgrößen im Mikrometerbereich ist bekannt, dass Stoffe mit abnehmender Partikelgröße kritischer einzustufen sind, da z.B. maximaler Explosionsdruck (pmax), maximaler zeitlicher Druckanstieg (dp/dtmax) und Zündempfindlichkeit durch die Zunahme der reaktiven Oberfläche des Staubes zunehmen. Eine Übersicht des Verlaufes der Explosionsauswirkungen metallischer Stäube vom Mikrometerbereich bis in den Nanometerbereich konnte bislang nur vereinzelt durch wenige Ergebnisse gegeben werden.
Dieser Beitrag präsentiert einen detaillierten Überblick über das Explosionsverhalten von Metallstäuben vom Mikrometer- bis in den Nanometerbereich. Hierfür wurden verschiedene Metallstäube untersucht und deren Explosionsauswirkungen in Abhängigkeit der mittleren Primärteilchengröße entweder durch BET-Messungen, Partikelgrößenverteilung oder REM-Mikroskopie bestimmt. Um den Verlauf des Explosionsverhaltens für diese Metalle darzustellen, wurde einerseits eine umfangreiche Literaturrecherche durchgeführt. Darüber hinaus wurden die im Rahmen deutscher und französischer Forschungsprogramme durchgeführten experimentellen Untersuchungen genutzt, um insbesondere die Datenlage für nanoskalig hergestellte Stäube zu verbessern. Auch bei Metallstäuben im Allgemeinen führt eine Verringerung der Teilchengröße zu einem kritischeren Verhalten der Stäube. Es scheint jedoch, dass diese Aussage nur bis zu einem kritischen Durchmesser gilt, unterhalb dessen die Auswirkungen einer Explosion (pmax, dp/dtmax) für alle betrachteten Stäube wieder abnehmen. Diese kritische Größe kann durch theoretische Überlegungen zur Art der thermischen Übertragung in der Flamme erklärt werden. Der Einfluss der Schlüsselparameter wird in diesem Beitrag ebenfalls diskutiert, um die Mechanismen besser zu verstehen und das Verständnis letztendlich auch auf andere pulverförmige Materialien auszudehnen.
Safety characteristics are widely used in industrial processes to avoid explosive atmospheres (primary explosionprotection) or to mitigate the consequences of an explosion (constructive explosion protection). Several laboratory parameters influence the determined values when performing the test series such as the beginning pressure and the pre-ignition pressure rise, the ignition source, the ignition energy, the burning duration and volume or the concentration of the combustible substance.
In the different standards for the determination of safety characteristics of dusts there is no statement about the scattering or the deviation when parameters are chosen or occur on the borders of their allowed range. Thus, two laboratories might determine values that are hardly comparable for the same given substance.
This article summarizes some of the influential factors that cause a deviation and shows the inherent scattering of dust tests when all other parameters are kept constant. It also provides some advice how to minimize the deviation and the scattering with little effort.
Several standardized ignition sources are used to determine the safety characteristics of gases, vapours and dusts. Standards indicate the source of ignition but vary in specifying other features such as the burning duration, energy or the volume in which the energy is released. Since heat is not visible under normal conditions, a schlieren technique was used to visualize the entire igniting volume and not just the flames. This article focuses on the igniting volume, compares it among the four standardized ignition sources and displays its relationship to the size of the test vessel. Differences in the ignition behaviour of the ignition sources might lead to the determination of erroneous safety characteristics and with that to the unsafe operation of processes.
The hybrid mixture of combustible dusts and flammable gases/vapours widely exist in various industries, including mining, petrochemical, metallurgical, textile and pharmaceutical. It may pose a higher explosion risk than gas/vapor or dust/mist explosions since the hybrid explosions can still be initiated even though both the gas and the dust concentration are lower than their lower explosion limit (LEL) values. Understanding the explosion threat of hybrid mixtures not only contributes to the inherent safety and sustainability of industrial process design, but promotes the efficiency of loss prevention and mitigation. To date, however, there is no test standard with reliable explosion criteria available to determine the safety parameters of all types of hybrid mixture explosions, nor the flame propagation and quenching mechanism or theoretical explanation behind these parameters. This review presents a state-of-the-art overview of the comprehensive understanding of hybrid mixture explosions mainly in an experimental study level; thereby, the main limitations and challenges to be faced are explored. The discussed main contents include the experimental measurement for the safety parameters of hybrid mixtures (i.e., explosion sensitivity and severity parameters) via typical test apparatuses, explosion regime and criterion of hybrid mixtures, the detailed flame propagation/quenching characteristics behind the explosion severities/sensitivities of hybrid mixtures. This work aims to summarize the essential basics of experimental studies, and to provide the perspectives based on the current research gaps to understand the explosion hazards of hybrid mixtures in-depth.
The maximum rate of pressure rise (dp/dt)𝑚𝑎𝑥 and the corresponding K-value of hybrid mixtures containing flammable gases and dusts are important for constructive explosion protection measures. Since the safety characteristics of dusts and gases are determined under different conditions, there has been considerable confusion about the influence of flammable gas on the (dp/dt) of dusts and vice versa. While some investigations showed comparably higher values for hybrid mixtures, others stated that the highest value for the gas component alone is the worst case.
The first part of this paper focuses on the confusion around the different statements about (dp/dt)𝑚𝑎𝑥 of hybrid mixtures and where they come from. In the second part of this paper experimental results are presented that illustrate how to clarify the different findings of past research and show what to expect as a real worst-case-value for hybrid mixtures.
The combustion characteristics and explosive hazard of syngas (H2/CO)/air mixtures are affected by its exact composition and equivalence ratios. In this paper, the explosion pressure and spectral radiant intensity of free radicals were quantitatively examined for syngas with different H2 proportions ([H2 in syngas] = 0, 30, 50, 70, 100 vol%) and equivalence ratios (φ = 0.8, 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 2.0, 2.5). The results show that the explosion process of syngas/air mixtures can be separated into the initial slow combustion stage, the violent deflagration stage and the deflagration ending stage. The peaks of explosion pressure, pressure rise rate, OH*spectral intensity and rise rate of spectral intensity first increase and then decrease with increasing the equivalence ratio, and they reduce gradually with the decrease of H2 proportion in syngas. The H2 content in syngas greatly affects the heat release and the concentration of excited state OH*, especially for the syngas/air mixtures with smaller proportion of H2. Additionally, the presence of H2 greatly increases the deflagration index and spectral radiant index of OH* for syngas/air mixtures. The average rise rates of explosion pressure and spectral intensity of free radicals are introduced and the coupling model between them is established based on the first law of thermodynamics and the principle of chain reaction. The established model is furthermore verified by the experimental results. It is indicated that there is a linear relationship between average rise rates of explosion pressure and spectral intensity (OH*). The results can be used to improve the combustion efficiency of syngas and to guide theoretically the prevention, mitigation and control of syngas explosions.
NM 105, Ti02 (P25) could not be ignited as dust layer and dispersed in air as dust/air-mixture as well. This dust is not dust explosible and the burning behaviour corresponds to Burning Class 1 (no Ignition). The results have shown that the tested sample is thus not combustible at all, because it is already oxidized completely.
The publicly available document encapsulates the first version of the Catalogue of Services of the future EC4Safenano Centre (CoS 2019).
The CoS 2019 is structured in 12 Service Categories and 27 Service Topics, for each of the 12 categories considered. This architecture configures a 12 x 27 matrix that allows ordering the potential EC4Safenano offer in 324 types of services/groups of services.
Each type of service/group of services is described, in a simple and friendly way, by means of a specific service sheet: the EC4Safenano - Service Data Sheet (EC4-SDS). These EC4-SDSs allow structuring and summarizing the information of each service, providing the customer with a concise view of characteristics of the service and also the contact details with the service provider.
The CoS 2019 deploys a map of services consisting of a set of 100 EC4-SDSs, covering 7 of the 12 Service Categories and 17 of the 27 Service Topics.
The harmonization of services is visualized as a future necessary step in EC4Safenano, in order to strengthen the offer and provide added value to customers with a growing offer of harmonized services in future versions of the CoS.
The information contained in this document is structured in 3 main sections, as follows:
• Catalogue structure. This section describes in short the main characteristics of the CoS 2019.
• Catalogue content. This section represents the core part of the document and encapsulates the set of 100 SDSs displaying the offer proposed by the CoS 2019.
• Online Catalogue. This section describes the resources implemented by EC4Safenano to facilitate the on-line consultation of the CoS 2019 by customers and other interested parties.
Soybean oil takes around half of the vegetable oil resources in the world, increasing in importance constantly. Besides, soy oil plants have experienced numerous accidents due to the coexistence of soy flour and hexane (as a solvent) in the extraction process, thus creating a hazardous environment. This study aims to find the maximum pressure, the maximum rate of pressure rise, and the minimum ignition energy of soy flour−hexane mixtures through specific experiments by varying the concentration of fuels in air and ignition mechanism (chemical igniters or exploding wires). The results have shown that soy flour alone is hard to ignite, whereas adding hexane even in small amounts increases the hazard and the severity of the explosions considerably. Eventually, the substitution of hexane with a greener and safer extraction agent should be of utmost focus.