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Dust Explosion:  Hazard Recognition, Assessment and Management

This three-day seminar is for the practicing fire protection engineer or plant engineer who is dealing with industrial sites that handle combustible particulate solids. 

 

This seminar covers the chemistry and physics of dust deflagrations, the process and progress of dust explosions, and the means by which the dust explosion hazard can be manages in both prescriptive and performance-based design environment.  Several sample problems will be included as part of the seminar content. 

 

Participants should bring with them a scientific calculator, scratch paper and the current editions of NFPA 68, 69 and 654 for working the course problems. 

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