2018 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

Print > How-To Article > Upper Midwest

Awarded to

Mark Rosenzweig, Editor in Chief; Amanda Joshi, Managing Editor; Jennifer Dakas, Art Director

Entry details

Tackle Combustible Dust Risks

Issue date (if applicable): 7/1/2017
Publication name: Chemical Processing
Publishing company: Putman Media
Website home page: ChemicalProcessing.com

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

Chemical Processing serves North American chemical industry professionals who design, operate, maintain and retrofit existing fine, specialty and commodity chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical plants. The magazine strives to provide practical information that will allow these readers to do their jobs more effectively and to make their plants operate more safely and efficiently, and to sensitize this audience to trends and developments that may impact them.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

Many chemical plants deal with solids as raw materials, intermediates in a process or final products. Often, the handling of solids generates dust. This dust can pose risks of combustion as well as toxicity, reactivity and other hazards. In such cases, developing an effective dust-mitigation strategy is crucial.
This article provides a practical roadmap for properly dealing with dusts. It covers what is involved in conducting a dust hazard analysis, and then how to address hazards identified. The article discusses the applicability of various dust prevention strategies, mentioning the advantages and disadvantages of each. It stresses that preventative measures alone aren’t enough. So, the article also details protection strategies, citing their pros and cons. A decision tree helps guide readers to the most appropriate dust-management strategy for their particular situation.

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