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Combustible Dust Hazards and Dust Explosions
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Short Course Number: CH034
CEU's: 1.50
PDH's: 15.00
Number of days: 2
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Who Should Attend
This short course will benefit attendees from a broad spectrum of backgrounds and job responsibilities including chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, process engineers/scientists, fire protection professionals, plant/process safety/risk managers, facility managers, and all others who need to be aware of the risks and vulnerabilities that can lead to injuries, fatalities, property damage and business interruptions in their plants. Why you should attend
A recent series of deadly dust explosions prompted OSHA to initiate the Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program to address dust explosion and fire hazards that may exist in facilities. The new OSHA directive will impact most plants handling powder and bulk materials. This short course is designed to familiarize you with the knowledge and tools you will need to examine your workplace for the hazards, assess protection needs, and to respond efficiently to additional changes in the regulatory climate. Attendees will also enjoy video footage from actual dust explosions. What You Will Learn What You Will Learn The attendees will gain an understanding of the:
- Dust explosion hazard that may exist in the workplace,
- Means to establish the existence, severity and consequences of the hazard,
- Means to control or eliminate the hazard,
- Means to assess adverse effects from protection and prevention systems, and
- technical reasoning behind the modern industrial standards and regulations.
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02/25/10 - 02/26/10 Houston, Texas
Held At: Omni Houston Hotel at Westside
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05/13/10 - 05/14/10 San Francisco, California
Held At: Hyatt at Fisherman's Wharf
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Dr. Erdem A. Ural
Dr. Ural is a well known combustible dust expert with over 25 years of experience. He has worked on research, litigation, insurance, protection, testing and regulation aspects of combustible dust problems.
Dr. Ural published numerous papers in his field, and is an author of the Explosion Prevention and Protection chapter of the NFPA Handbook of Fire Protection. He is the chairperson of the ASTM committee for Flammability and Ignitability of Chemicals, and serves on a number of Combustible Dust Safety committees including those responsible for NFPA 68, NFPA 69, NFPA 85, NFPA 91, NFPA 484, NFPA 654 and NFPA 664.
Dr. Ural is twice the recipient of the Bill Doyle Award for the best paper presentation at the Loss Prevention Symposium. He also received an outstanding achievement award from FM Global.
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Presented by an independent expert, this short course will start with the fundamentals of dust explosions and protection strategies. Principles of hazard assessment, protection methods, and protection applications will be reviewed. Attendees will be updated on the recent advances in the Explosion Protection technology, which include the major changes in the NFPA standards such as NFPA 654, NFPA 69, NFPA 68, material hazard assessment test standards, and protection equipment designs. Course outline is as follows:
.Differences and similarities between the dust explosions and other types of explosions
.A dust explosion case study: primary and secondary dust explosions
.Effects and consequences of dust explosions
.Explosion statistics
.Overview of publicly available protection and prevention standards
.Ignition and propagation of dust explosions in closed and vented enclosures
.Dust explosion hazard tests and interpretation of results
.Prevention of dust explosions by fuel control
.Prevention of dust explosions by oxygen control (intering)
.Prevention of dust explosions by ignition control
.Dust explosion containment
.Dust explosion venting
.Dust explosion suppression
.Dust explosion isolation
.New OSHA Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program
.Potential adverse effects of dust explosion protection systems (examples from venting, inerting and suppression)
.Common pitfalls in hazard communication •Tools for vulnerability/consequence analysis and incident investigation
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