- Author
- Brown, H. R.
- Title
- Pioneering in the Study of Dust Explosions.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA
- Book or Conf
- Pennsylvania State Univ. and National Science Foundation. Dust Explosions. Circular 64. September 4-5, 1962., University Park, PA, III.10-15 p., 1962
- Keywords
- dust explosions
- Abstract
- Forty-five years ago a series of tests to determine possible causes of dust explosions were being completed at the Pennsylvania State College only a short distance from the building in which this meeting is being held. These tests centered around the operation of an attrition mill producing different types of grain dust and the investigation touched on various phases of the subject, including sparks produced by foreign material entering the mill, static electricity in the mill, the effect of humidity, and some explosion preventive measures that were suggested during the progress of the work.