Session: Combustible Dusts: Avoiding Disasters

The analysis, prevention, protection, and mitigation of fires, flash fires, and explosions remains critical to the loss prevention community and combustible dust safety continues to be an area of interest and development for loss prevention professionals. This session explores fires, flash fires, and explosions caused by combustible dust, which manifests as a hazard across diverse industrial sectors. This technical session invites papers on these process hazards as they relate to the chemical industry, with a specific focus on new data, novel or cutting-edge approaches related to hazards identification and/or characterization, updated regulatory matters, hazards assessment, and the development of safe designs and/or operational practices to manage the hazards. Prospective authors: Consider if your paper is best aligned to the LPS “Combustible Dusts: Avoiding Disasters” session or the CCPS “Effective Management Systems Approaches to Combustible Dust Hazards” session, and submit your abstract accordingly.