Abstract

We conducted experiments to examine the explosion characteristics of different sizes of micro-sized and nano-sized magnesium dust. These explosion characteristics, such as the maximum explosion pressure and maximum rate of pressure rise, depend on the dust concentration. Changes in the particle sizes do not cause clear differences in the explosion characteristics of nano-sized magnesium dust. However, the explosion characteristic values of micro-sized magnesium dust decrease with increasing particle size. Furthermore, nano-sized magnesium dust showed greater explosion characteristics than micro-sized magnesium dust. The calculated flame propagation velocity showed the same trend as the maximum explosion pressure and maximum rate of the pressure rise. The results of classifying the explosion intensity hazards of a magnesium dust explosion showed that the explosion index increased with the decrease of particle size.

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