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DUST EXPLOSION HAZARDS AN ADVANCED COURSE
February 28 - 29, 2012 Presented by GexCon & Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center
Location: Houston, Texas Includes Small-Scale Demonstration
DUST PROPERTIES EXPLOSION MODELING PREVENTIVE MEASURES
IGNITION SOURCES PROTECTIVE MEASURES PROCESS HAZARD ANALYSIS LEGISLATION ACCIDENTS SELECTED CASES OUTLOOK
AGENDA Tuesday 28th February 2012
09:00 Registration and Coffee
09:30 Opening Why is dust a problem? Statistics on dust explosions: equipment involved, ignition sources, dust types
09:45 Dust Explosion Accidents Examples of accidents: Imperial Sugar, West Pharmaceutical, Jahn Foundry, Bremer Hammer Mühle, etc.
10:15 Dust Explosion Basics and Dust Explosion Characteristics Combustion mechanisms, explosion properties and test methods, influence factors
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Ignition Sources Mechanical sparks, hot surfaces, static electricity, hot work
12:00 Lessons Learned: Legislation and Standards US legislation, OSHA’s NEP, NFPA standards
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Preventive Measures 1: Introduction Inerting, avoidance of ignition sources, housekeeping, hazard area classification
14:30 Coffee Break
14:45 Preventive Measures 2: How to Perform a Hazardous Area Classification Guidance, important factors to consider, examples
15:30 Preventive Measures 3: Avoidance of Ignition Sources Demands to electric and mechanical equipment
16:15 Coffee Break
16:30 Preventive Measures 4: Housekeeping Why? How? NFPA 654, OSHA’s NEP
17:15 Questions and Answers
AGENDA Wednesday 29th February 2012
08:00 Arrival and Coffee
08:30 Protective Measures 1: Introduction Principles of explosion venting, suppression, isolation, and containment
09:20 Protective Measures 2: Dust Explosion Venting Design How to calculate vent sizes, practical examples of dust handling equipment, vent panels, recoil forces, external effects, vent ducts, examples of poor design
10:15 Coffee Break
10:30 Protective Measures 3: Dust Explosion Suppression Design Design of explosion suppression. Important factors: detection, dust reactivity, vessel parameters, and hardware properties. Examples of dust handling equipment
11:15 Protective Measures 4: Dust Explosion Isolation Design features regarding the use of slam-shut valves, extinguishing barriers, diverters, rotary valves, explosion flap valves
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Dust Explosion Process Hazard Analysis How to perform a sound dust explosion hazard analysis. Examples of dust handling equipment, how to comply with OSHA’s NEP
13:45 Dust Explosion Modeling Using CFD to describe explosion propagation and protection measures for complex dust handling equipment geometry. Examples of design and accident investigation
14:45 Questions and Answers
15:15 Small-Scale Demonstration The lecturers include explosion experts Dr. Kees van Wingerden, Dr. Peter Hinze and Dr. Scott Davis.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Registration
Pre-registration is required.
Online registration is available at: http://engrevent.tamu.edu/event/100819 or you may send an e-mail to [email protected] or [email protected] to receive a registration form. Your registration must be submitted before February 14th 2012. Attendance fee $995.
Hotel booking & Venue
The course will be held in Houston, TX at the Phoenix Contact- Customer Technology Center - 3933 W. Sam Houston Pkwy N, Suite 500. Nearby hotel accommodations include: Comfort Suites 832-467-1200; Sheraton Houston West Hotel 877-462-5638; Omni- Westside 281-558-8338. These are only suggested hotels, please go online for personal hotel preferences.
MKOPSC
The Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center’s mission is to promote safety as second nature in industry around the world with goals to prevent future accidents. The Center develops safer processes, equipment, procedures and management strategies to minimize losses within the processing industry. MKOPSC is located on the TAMU-College Station campus.
GexCon US
GexCon US is an engineering consulting firm that specializes in gas dispersion, fire and explosion safety. GexCon has extensive experience in gas & dust explosions, which includes explosion phenomena, safety assessments, accident investigations and experimental testing.
GexCon US (www.gexconus.com) 7735 Old Georgetown Rd, Ste 1010 Bethesda, MD, 20814 Tel:301-915-9940, Email: [email protected]
GexCon www.gexcon.com / www.gexconus.com is an R&D and consulting company specializing in industrial explosion risk. 30 years of dedicated experimental research in the field of explosion safety has been carried out in parallel to the development of the commercial CFD-software FLACS for explosion and dispersion calculations. GexCon offers highly qualified explosion consequence services and software worldwide.
