A dust explosion can result in significant downtime, insurance increases, fines, equipment and building damage, and worst of all, harm to employees. Fike’s unique ability to identify hazards, design and supply the required solutions and execute all required service protects both businesses and its workers from the dangers of combustible hazards.
Our team helps identify the necessary explosion protection solutions, design the protection for the unique equipment and manufacture it to ensure Fike’s high quality is always met. Fike explosion protection solutions are extensively tested and validated to ensure they work precisely as intended if called upon.
Each Fike explosion venting system is custom designed specifically to mitigate your hazard risk and meet the needs of your application and business. This process is based on your unique combination of hazard type, equipment and its location, interconnections, operating conditions and regulations. As part of this design process, Fike prepares a full system design where the following venting parameters are calculated by qualified personnel:
- Size, burst pressure, quantity and type of vent panels and flameless venting devices, if applicable.
- Installation location within your equipment.
- External flame and pressure effects.
- Recoil forces on the processing equipment.
This data can then be used to:
- Verify whether there is enough space available on your equipment to install the vent panels.
- Verify whether there is sufficient space around your equipment to implement a safety zone (for the safe venting of flame and/or pressure).
- Guide your mechanical installation team or contractor.
- Evaluate your equipment’s capability of the recoil forces that may arise during an explosion event.
The final system design document can be added to your explosion hazard and protection files to be submitted in case of a safety inspection.