Dust explosions represent a persistent hazard in various industrial settings, occurring when suspended particulates, such as metallic, coal, or organic dust, rapidly combust in a confined environment.

The annual summary recording nationwide grain dust explosions reported nine incidents in the United States in 2023, resulting in 12 injuries but no fatalities. “Dust explosions are one of the most ...

If explosion preventive measures alone cannot reduce the risk of a dust cloud explosion to an acceptable level, then explosion protection measures must be considered. Explosible dust clouds can be ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - The Fargo Fire Department has determined that an explosion at a food processing plant in April was actually caused by a dust explosion within one of the facility’s ...

More robust rules are coming to regulate combustible dust in B.C. workplaces, more than 14 years after two separate deadly ...

Due to the growing awareness of combustible dust hazards and broader adoption of regulatory requirements to complete a dust hazard analysis (DHA), manufacturing facilities are increasing efforts to ...

Dust explosions pose a severe hazard in the workplace, but there many ways to detect danger before a problem occurs. Dust explosions are a serious hazard in the process industries. They have led to ...

Wood can burn. That's obvious. Wood chips and pellets belong to the important secondary fuels category in modern power plants, furnaces or heat generators. Yet it is still not common knowledge that ...

FREMONT, Neb. (WOWT) - Two days after a horrific explosion at a biofuels plant left a man and two girls dead, the state fire marshal told First Alert 6 the incident started with a dust fire — and was ...

THE occurrence of a serious explosion in the Capitol at Washington, last November, has led the President of the American Society, Prof. C. E. Munroe, to address the members on the subject of ...