Industrial Dust Explosions. A Brief Review

This paper first addresses the question: what is a dust explosion? Afterwards, some specific issues are briefly reviewed: materials that can give explosions, factors influencing ignitability and explosibility of clouds, combustion clouds in air, ignition sources initiate primary secondary flash fires, explosions “hybrid mixtures”, detonation clouds. Subsequently, measures for explosion prevention mitigation reviewed. The next section presents case history an industrial catastrophe China 2014. In final section, brief review given current research related to explosions. There constant need further development all areas elucidated paper.