Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6973322 | Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries | 2015 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The results show that even the addition of a modest amount of a highly flammable powder to a less combustible powder has a significant impact on the MIE. The MIE varies considerably when the fraction of the highly flammable powder exceeds 20%. For dust mixtures consisting of combustible dusts, the relationship between the ignition energy of the mixture and the minimum ignition energy of the components follows the so-called harmonic model based upon the volume fraction of the pure dusts in the mixture. This correlation provides results which show satisfactory agreement with the experimental values.
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Authors
Sepideh Hosseinzadeh, Frederik Norman, Filip Verplaetsen, Jan Berghmans, Eric Van den Bulck,