Dust Explosion during transfer of Aluminum Powder (Static Electricity)
In November 2015, an operator at an explosives manufacturing plant was tasked with transferring aluminium grit atomised powder (aluminium powder) from a flexible intermediate bulk container (IBC) outside the plant to the hopper inside the plant. Using a pneumatically-driven vacuum suction pump and transfer pipe work (which incorporated five metres of PVC piping) the operator successfully transferred part of…...
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