Determination of technical safety indices and factors influencing
hazard evaluation of dusts
Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 9 (1):
21--31 (1996)DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0950-4230(95)00057-7
Abstract
A knowledge of material safety properties is an essential requirement
for the safe handling of unit operations. Incidents in plants can
often be traced to an insufficient knowledge of the hazardous properties
of combustible substances. Unforeseen violent reactions in which
destructive energies or large amounts of hazardous materials were
released have resulted. Safety properties provide information on
the reaction behaviour of the substances and possible fire and explosion
hazards, presupposing that they are determined carefully and applied
properly. The paper provides definitions of the material safety properties
and brief descriptions of their methods of determination, which should
be standardized internationally if at all possible, and describes
various evaluation criteria. The analysis distinguishes between dust
layers and dust suspensions.