Calorimetry and Dust Explosibility Testing

Specialised laboratory testing for reactive chemistry and combustible dust generates the engineering data that underpins vent sizing per DIERS and NFPA 68, suppression design per NFPA 69, ignition source control per IEC 80079 36 and EN 1127 1, and ATEX Zone classification per IEC 60079 10 2. The reaction calorimetry stack of DSC for milligram scale screening, RC1 for millilitre isothermal kinetics, ARC for millilitre scale adiabatic worst case, VSP2 and Phi Tec for 10 millilitre adiabatic two phase work, and Mettler Toledo HEL produces complementary datasets that feed Stoessel criticality and DIERS vent sizing methodology. The dust testing stack of the Hartmann tube for legacy MIE screening, MIKE 3 for modern MIE per EN 13821, the Godbert Greenwald and BAM ovens for MIT per EN 50281 2 1, the 20 litre sphere for Kst and Pmax per EN 14034 and ASTM E1226, and the MEC apparatus per EN 14034 3 generates the parameters required for Zone 20, 21, and 22 classification, vent area calculation, suppression bottle sizing, and inerting LOC determination. Most industrial powder facilities operate without site specific dust data and rely on generic K values that under protect their actual material, and both OSHA NEP and FM Global increasingly demand site specific testing, which is exactly what our team provides.