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Blast load for grain storage of beer brewery
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ornerynorsk
Industrial
I would think the design considerations would be similar, with the main exception that grain dust explosions can yield secondary explosions when loose material is shaken loose by the primary explosion. Technical references are available for velocity/pressure.
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
You might poke around Factory Mutual's public guide, Prevention and Mitigation of Combustible Dust Explosion and Fire, FM 7-76, April 2013, available here,
It might yield a search term that could point you in the right direction.
It might yield a search term that could point you in the right direction.
slipstick50
Bioengineer
Go to the NFPA standards.. There are several that apply and give good guidance when designing for dust explosions. R
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