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| Dust cloud formation processes | Dust cloud ignition processes | Flame propagation processes in dust clouds | Blast waves generated by burning dust clouds |
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| Inter-particle forces in dust deposits (cohesion) | General theories for ignition of single particles and clouds | Single-particle ignition and combustion in hot oxidizer gas | Blast wave properties as a function of properties of burning dust clouds |
| Entrainment of particles from dust deposits by shock waves passing across the deposit surface | Ignition by smouldering combustion in dust layers/deposits | Laminar and turbulent flames in dust clouds | Effects of blast waves on humans and mechanical structures |
| Ignition by hot surfaces |
| Entrainment of particles from dust deposits by turbulent gas flows Transport of dust particles in turbulent gas flows | Ignition by flying burning metal particles | Mechanisms of heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation) | Ability of blast waves from dust explosions to transform dust layers into explosive dust clouds (coupled to first column of table) |
| Ignition by electric sparks and arcs | | |
| Ignition by electrostatic discharges | Limit conditions for flame propagation in dust clouds (particle properties, dust conc., oxygen conc., geometry). | |
| Ignition by hot gas jets | |
| Ignition by shock waves | |
| Measurement and characterization of turbulence in dust clouds | Ignition by hot-spots from focused light beams | Acceleration of flames in dust clouds by turbulence mechanisms | |
| Measurement and characterization of spatial distribution of particles in dust clouds | Influences on dust cloud ignition sensitivity of cloud properties (composition, size, shape of particles, dust concentration, composition, turbulence, temperature and pressure of gas phase) | Detonation phenomena in dust clouds | |
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