An explosion vent or rupture panel is a safety device to protect equipment or buildings against excessive internal, explosion-incurred pressures, by means...
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occupational safety and health purposes. Explosion pressure Explosion prevention standards for electrical equipment Explosion vent Explosives safety Inert gas Pressure...
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Hydrogen safety (redirect from Hydrogen explosion)
"Liquid Hydrogen Tank Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion (Bleve) Due to Water-Plugged Vent Stack". H2Tools. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory...
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detonation sounds accompanied every explosion. Successive explosions occurred at intervals of 5 to 160 minutes. Explosions vented on the north eastern slope of...
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are manufactured as rectangular panels ('rupture panels', 'vent panels' or explosion vents) and used to protect buildings, enclosed conveyor systems or...
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A dust explosion is the rapid combustion of fine particles suspended in the air within an enclosed location. Dust explosions can occur where any dispersed...
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/ 52; 102.5 Khulugayshi is a volcano in Russia. It is formed by an explosion vent or diatreme in the Mondinsk Depression. The volcano's eruption products...
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extremely large explosions, accidental and intentional, caused by modern high explosives, boiling liquid expanding vapour explosions (BLEVEs), older explosives...
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On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire occurred on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, which was owned and operated...
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Phreatic eruption (redirect from Phreatic explosion)
new eruptive vents tended to announce themselves with a phreatic explosion, followed soon after by the opening of a new fissure vent in the same location...
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TWA Flight 800 (category Airliner accidents and incidents involving in-flight explosions)
report's conclusion was that the probable cause of the accident was the explosion of flammable fuel vapors in the center fuel tank. Although it could not...
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Blast damper (category Explosion protection)
corrosion-resistant versions are often requested in these instances. Explosion vent Fire damper Rupture disc "Blast Dampers". flamgard.halton.com. Retrieved...
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A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE, /ˈblɛviː/ BLEV-ee) is an explosion caused by the rupture of a vessel containing a pressurized liquid...
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volcanic landforms. They are built by ejecta from a volcanic vent, piling up around the vent in the shape of a cone with a central crater. Volcanic cones...
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a list of accidental explosions and facts about each one, grouped by the time of their occurrence. It does not include explosions caused by terrorist attacks...
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Explosives safety (category Explosion protection)
state and local regulations dealing with safety of A&E. Explosion protection Explosion vent Explosive material Explosives shipping classification system...
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1883 eruption of Krakatoa (section Explosions)
third vent, and later many more, appeared. The eruptions continued throughout July, and their violence continued to increase until the explosions of 27...
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Nuclear weapons testing (redirect from Nuclear test explosion)
determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Over 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been carried out since 1945. Nuclear...
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May 2018 as new volcanic vents opened in lower Puna. The subsidence of the lava lake was accompanied by a period of explosions, earthquakes, large clouds...
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Volcano (redirect from Volcanic vent)
A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases...
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Buncefield fire (redirect from 2005 Hemel Hempstead oil depot explosion)
overflowed through vents at the top, and formed a vapour cloud near ground level, which ignited and exploded. The fires from the explosion then lasted for...
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prohibiting atmospheric venting of-heavier-than-air light hydrocarbons. They also relocated trailers away from areas where explosions are possible and started...
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A boiler explosion is a catastrophic failure of a boiler. There are two types of boiler explosions. One type is a failure of the pressure parts of the...
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Underground nuclear weapons testing (redirect from Contained nuclear explosion)
collapse and venting. Hard basement rock may reflect shock waves of the explosion, also possibly causing structural weakening and venting. The noncondensible...
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this moment the primordial that has been released causes a volcanic explosion. Venting its rage against living beings, it targets Neverwinter and destroys...
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2011 Norway attacks (redirect from Oslo explosion, 2011)
which a total of 77 people were killed. The first attack was a car bomb explosion in Oslo within Regjeringskvartalet, the executive government quarter of...
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Crater (section Explosion crater)
fissures and vents. They usually have nearly circular openings. A subsidence crater is a depression from an underground (usually nuclear) explosion. Many such...
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Springhill mining disasters (section 1891 explosion)
French Canadian folk group Le Vent du Nord on their 2009 album La part du feu relates to the 1891 explosion. The 1956 explosion occurred on November 1, and...
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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster (redirect from Space Shuttle Columbia explosion)
that the foam loss was due to pressure buildup within the insulation, added vent holes to the foam to allow gas to escape. After a bipod foam strike damaged...
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Geothermal activity (section Fumaroles and vents)
convective heat transfer by groundwater or gases. Fumaroles, or volcanic vents, are holes in the ground from which volcanic vapors and gases escape to...
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