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Combustible Dust in the Workplace

When your work application produces dangerous by-products, it’s necessary to find safe and efficient solutions that remove these risks from the equation and allow work to carry on unabated. One by-product that is particularly dangerous is combustible dust.

What Is Combustible Dust?

Combustible dust refers to metallic or non-metallic airborne dust that is capable of causing an explosion in your work space. The determining factor on whether or not industrial dust is combustible lies in its KST value, which measures how explosive dust is when compared to other types of dust. Any reading higher than zero indicates the risk for explosion.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

Recommended Products for Combustible Dust

up tp 6500 cfm

Wet Downdraft Tables provide an efficient means of capturing and arresting combustible dusts. Diversitech produces all wet collectors in stainless steel to avoid rust and corrosion.

Up to 12000 CFM

Wet Dust Collectors provide a safe and efficient means of capturing and arresting combustible dust and can be connected to different types of capture devices.

Up to 4500 CFM

Diversitech’s Environmental Booths provide the only effective method of eliminating airborne dust at the source when welding, grinding, spray-painting and sanding on large dimension parts and assemblies.

Dangers of Combustible Dust

Work applications that have the capacity to produce combustible dust create some of the most hazardous work conditions imaginable if the dust is not contained and removed safely.

Consequences of a serious combustible dust incident include:

  • Serious injury or death to nearby workers
  • Severe property damage
  • Irreversible environmental damage
  • Long-term business interruption

High-Risk Industries and Applications

The possibilities lead toward the catastrophic, and many companies are unaware that they have a combustible dust issue, or where in their work space this dangerous dust is settling.

According to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, combustible dust may be a by-product of processing or handling:

  • Agricultural products like powdered milk, sugar or wood flour
  • Agricultural dust from cocoa beans, carrots, rice flour and tomato
  • Carbonaceous dusts like activated charcoal, lignite and cellulose
  • Chemical dusts like dextrose, lead stearate and sulfur
  • Metal dusts like aluminum, magnesium and zinc
  • Plastic dusts like polyethylene, acrylamide and phenolic resin

Industries

  • Metalwork
  • Chemical Processing
  • Food Processing
  • Woodwork
  • Coal Mining
  • Pharmaceutical Processing
  • Foundry
  • Rubber Processing

Applications

  • Metalwork (aluminum, magnesium, or titanium and others) – cutting, grinding, or finishing
  • Ceramics – raw product handling and enamel spray
  • Chemicals – material handling, crushing, grinding, roasters, kilns, and coolers
  • Coal mining – material handling, de-dusting, drying, air cleaning
  • Food (flour, sugar, and others) – mixing, grinding, blending, bagging, and packaging
  • Foundry – sand handling, tumbling mills, abrasive cleaning, and shakeout
  • Pharmaceutical – mixing, grinding, blending, bagging, and packaging
  • Rubber – mixing, grinding, talc dusting, de-dusting, and batch-out rolls
  • Woodwork – woodworking machines, sanding, waste conveying

  • Metalwork (aluminum, magnesium, or titanium and others) – cutting, grinding, or finishing
  • Ceramics – raw product handling and enamel spray
  • Chemicals – material handling, crushing, grinding, roasters, kilns, and coolers
  • Coal mining – material handling, de-dusting, drying, air cleaning
  • Food (flour, sugar, and others) – mixing, grinding, blending, bagging, and packaging
  • Foundry – sand handling, tumbling mills, abrasive cleaning, and shakeout
  • Pharmaceutical – mixing, grinding, blending, bagging, and packaging
  • Rubber – mixing, grinding, talc dusting, de-dusting, and batch-out rolls
  • Woodwork – woodworking machines, sanding, waste conveying

Recommended Products for Combustible Dust

up tp 6500 cfm

Wet Downdraft Tables provide an efficient means of capturing and arresting combustible dusts. Diversitech produces all wet collectors in stainless steel to avoid rust and corrosion.

Up to 12000 CFM

Wet Dust Collectors provide a safe and efficient means of capturing and arresting combustible dust and can be connected to different types of capture devices.

Up to 4500 CFM

Diversitech’s Environmental Booths provide the only effective method of eliminating airborne dust at the source when welding, grinding, spray-painting and sanding on large dimension parts and assemblies.

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