Industrial explosions can occur anywhere where combustible powders and/or flammable vapours are handled, such as facilities dealing with wood, flour, starch, sugar, rubber, plastics, pharmaceuticals, oil, gas, and other industries. Explosions can lead to loss of lives and colossal costs to companies found culpable for failing to follow safety protocols.

Explosion Safety for Industries presents a set of preventative measures, rules, and standards to mitigate the risk of explosions by preventing potential explosive atmosphere formation. Coverage includes risks and hazards, equipment selection, earthing systems, static electricity, and lightning protection, among others. This book aims to help those responsible for the design, installation, operation and maintenance of process plants comply with the provisions of international safety legislation. Readers will develop a thorough understanding of the science behind explosions and the methods and measures needed to prevent accidents irrespective of their workplace or industry.

This book is a comprehensive guide for industrial explosion prevention and protection for safety engineers, specialists, and managers as well as for physicists, chemists, mechanical engineers, and electrical engineers.

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Estellito Rangel Junior is an independent consultant on industrial systems, installations in hazardous locations and electrical safety, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He worked for Petrobras (the Brasilian state owned Oil & Gas company) and has over 40 years of experience based on industrial electrical systems design, erection, commissioning and maintenance in large projects such as complexes in the Oil & Gas sector, and participation in expert groups of technical standards for Petrobras, ABNT, API, IEC and IEEE. He was the first Brasilian expert in IEC TC-31 - International Electrotechnical Commission - Technical Committee 31 - Equipment for explosive atmospheres, where he took part on preparing international standards relating to equipment for use where there is a hazard due to the possible presence of explosive atmospheres of gases, vapours, mists or combustible dusts.