Experimental research on explosibility at high initial pressures of combustible dusts

摘要

In recent years some explosibility experiments were carried out by LOM (Spain) to look into the behaviour of the combustible dusts at hyperbaric pressures. In this way, different aspects were studied, such as the effect of initial pressure on the explosion development, the influence of the effective present turbulence or preventative existing techniques such as inertization. This paper contains a summary of the different tests performed, which covered a range of initial pressure from 1 to 15 bar. Several fuels were used within the works, and their main features are described to facilitate understanding the results.