Presenter: Bill Stevenson and John Cholin

While the NFPA dust standards are good at prescribing an approach to managing dust explosion hazards there are many times when the realities on the ground, at the site, make it very difficult if not impossible to use a simple, straight-forward prescriptive approach. The presenters use actual case studies to show how one can make use of practical options and performance-equivalent alternative designs to achieve the objectives of the standards where the prescriptive approach is not an option.