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论文类型：期刊论文

发表时间：2015-01-01

发表刊物：JOURNAL OF LOSS PREVENTION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES

收录刊物：SCIE、EI、Scopus

卷号：33

页面范围：101-108

ISSN号：0950-4230

关键字：Dust explosion venting; Flame behaviors; Pressure characteristics; Secondary explosion

摘要：Dust explosion venting experiments were performed using a 20-L spherical chamber at elevated static activation overpressures larger than 1 bar. Lycopodium dust samples with mean diameter of 70 pm and electric igniters with 0.5 KJ ignition energy were used in the experiments. Explosion overpressures in the chamber and flame appearances near the vent were recorded simultaneously. The results indicated that the flame appeared as the under-expanded free jet with shock diamonds, when the overpressure in the chamber was larger than the critical pressure during the venting process. The flame appeared as the normal constant-pressure combustion when the pressure venting process finished. Three types of venting processes were concluded in the experiments: no secondary flame and no secondary explosion, secondary flame, secondary explosion. The occurrence of the secondary explosions near the vent was related to the vent diameter and the static activation overpressure. Larger diameters and lower static activation overpressures were beneficial to the occurrence of the secondary explosions. In current experiments, the secondary explosions only occurred at the following combinations of the vent diameter and the static activation overpressure: 40 mm and 1.2 bar, 60 mm and 1.2 bar, 60 mm and 1.8 bar. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.