A deadly explosion at Sigachi Industries in Hyderabad, likely triggered by thermal decomposition of microcrystalline ...

From salt and baking soda to seasonings, there are many kitchen pantry essentials you should have ready at hand. This one ...

The 2008 Imperial Sugar refinery explosion in Georgia, US, serves as a sobering example. Caused by an accumulation of sugar dust, the blast resulted in 14 deaths and 36 injuries. Investigators ...

U.S. Sugar cultivates and refines more than 200,000 acres of sugar cane at its Clewiston, Florida, headquarters — making it the largest producer of sugar in the U.S.

Robert Comer’s book Explosion Vented Equipment System Protection Guide provides practical applications and guidance to analyze and design or retrofit dust collection equipment to prevent dust ...

Additionally, the dust collector must be equipped with a deflagration system to safely vent the energy of an explosion and prevent pressure waves from propagating back into the facility and generating ...

Sugar is combustible and therefore presents an explosion hazard when it is finely divided and dispersed as a dust cloud in air. All that is needed is an ignition source. Sugar fines from the handling ...

Sugar is combustible and therefore presents an explosion hazard when it is finely divided and dispersed as a dust cloud in air. All that is needed is an ignition source. Sugar fines from the handling ...

July 27, 2020 About 12 years ago, the food and beverage industry suffered maybe its worst catastrophe at the Imperial Sugar plant near Savannah, Ga. A dust explosion, triggered by an ignition source ...