An Analysis of Dust Explosion Incidents in Industries and Mitigation Best Practices within Malaysia

Mohd Azimie, Ahmad and Norazura, Ismail and Mohamad Rizza, Othman (2016) An Analysis of Dust Explosion Incidents in Industries and Mitigation Best Practices within Malaysia. In: Proceedings of The National Conference for Postgraduate Research (NCON-PGR 2016) , 24-25 September 2016 , Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), Pekan, Pahang. pp. 483-489..

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Abstract

The trends of process safety incident have been put in the statistical research and development in order to prevent and mitigate the phenomenon. One of the incident are known as dust explosion that represent a constant hazard to industries including any manufacturing using and handling of combustible dust materials. Lack of sharing and know how on best practices in managing the workplace to avoid this phenomenon happening throughout the industries. The severity and the consequences of not practicing it before it happens were not been fore seen by the process team until it too late. This present paper discusses the best practices in managing the hazards from the catastrophes to be happening again. In addition, the mitigation response was also being explored thoroughly by database of best practices. The work summarizes in Microsoft Access database related to incident were tabulated according to the types of industries involved in dust explosion, the equipment that involved, the types of combustible dust, the sources of ignition points, and also the impact from the incident. All incident being summarized from the literature review and also documentation review respectively. Triangulation method was used in managing the data and verified with industries by having interview session, observation and documentation review.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Uncontrolled Keywords: process safety incident, dust explosion, best practices, database, mitigation
Subjects: T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Depositing User: Rosfadilla Mohamad Zainun
Date Deposited: 20 Dec 2016 00:35
Last Modified: 09 Mar 2018 07:09
URI: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/15823
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