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Inadequate Treatment of Dust Explosions in Atex?

Explosion Protection

Inadequate Treatment of Dust Explosions in Atex?

09/06/2011 - The European 'Atex' Directives 94/9/EC and 999/92/EC exhibit a lack of differentiation between explosive gas mixtures and explosive dust clouds. Consequently, some very substantial differences between gases/vapours and dusts have either been neglected or addressed inadequately. read...

Products and Processes

Mitigating the Risk of a Coal Dust Explosion in Underground Mines

Coal Dust Explosion

Mitigating the Risk of a Coal Dust Explosion in Underground Mines

01/12/2012 - BMT WBM, a subsidiary of BMT Group, an international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, has developed an experimental prototype system which could help mitigate the risks of coal dust explosions occurring in underground coal mines. read...


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