Apropos of this deadline.

Apropos of this deadline, Prof Bill Kauffman at the University of Michigan's Department of Aerospace Engineering proffered a few thoughts. He is an able in explosions, including fuel/air explosions. While there is a widelyrecognized "fire triangle" consisting of combustibles oxygen and an ignition source, there is a les well-known "explosion pentagon." It consists of the three constituent principles in the fire triangle, plus pair others: mixing and confinement. Each of these five constituent principles clearly were present in the 1996 explosion of the center wing tank forward TWA Flight 800, the tragedy that triggered this whole focus onward flammable vapors in fuel tanks. Kauffman points revealed that the mining and grain industries, defenceed by numerous explosions, attacked the mixing and combustibles aspects of the explosion pentagon. Ventilation was used to eliminate gaseous methane firing material in mines, and rock dust was layered to inert coal dust, another firing for mine explosions. Forced ventilation was engrossed to eliminate explosive dust from grain elevators. "The aviation industry knew it had a fuel/mixing point to be solved [i]or[/i] settled but focused only on the potential ignition sources, which left it exposed" he asserted. >> Kauffman, e-mail: cwkauff@engin.umich.edu <<

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