Combustion Control Techniques for Prevention and Mitigation of Disasters — Applications for Fire and Explosion Safety —

Abstract

The combustion researches on safety mattes have been important since the early times of combustion research. In this paper, the application of combustion researches on the combustion control techniques for prevention and mitigation of combustion-induced disasters. The factor analyses of fire and explosion disasters, which are typical combustion-induced disasters, are performed to make clear how the combustion researches could contribute. Also the risk assessment of fire and explosion disasters is explained. As an example of such combustion research, the research of dust explosion is presented. Dust explosion is much more complicated than gas explosion. The knowledge of flame structure, flame propagating mechanism and dust particle behavior is necessary to understand dust explosion phenomena. Such knowledge is indispensable to establish the combustion control techniques for preventing and mitigating the dust explosion disasters.