Dust and Gas explosions related accidents are still a common phenomenon in the process industry.
Dr. Chris Clooney from Dustsafetyscience.com lists 53 reported explosion incidents of larger scale in 2021. Reported fires and explosion in process equipment can be found throughout the industries and in different equipment.
Extensive research has been conducted over the last decades, enabling experts worldwide to establish standards and guidelines do deal with the hazard of gas and dust explosions. Besides preventive measures to avoid explosions, explosion protection techniques were developed to protect process equipment such as dust collectors, silos, dryers and or cyclones and many others.
One of the most common explosion protection measures is explosion venting, to reduce occurring explosion pressures in the equipment to an acceptable minimum.
In a globalized world, equipment manufacturers are forced to know about many standards and guidelines present in their destination country they are going to supply to. This sometimes can be overwhelming.
With VENT.iNG., a software is available which helps the explosion protection expert to apply the two most common explosion venting approaches in the world, following NFPA and ATEX.
VENT.iNG. in its different version is essentially based on
European Standards / Guidelines
- EN 14491-2012 “Dust explosion venting protective systems”
- EN 14994-2007 “Gas explosion venting protective systems”,
- Guideline VDI-3673, Part 1-2002 “Pressure release of dust explosions”,
NFPA standards
- NFPA 68:2023 “Standard on Explosion Protection by Deflagration Venting”.
A more detailed description of each available VENT.iNG. version can be found in the shop section.