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http://dx.doi.org/10.7842/kigas.2015.19.5.75

Pyrolysis Hazard for Nano and Micro-sized Aluminium Dusts  

Han, Ou-Sup (Occupational Safety & Health Research Institute, KOSHA)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas / v.19, no.5, 2015 , pp. 75-80 More about this Journal
Abstract
Aluminum dusts, from micro to nano-scale, are widely used in various applications such as propulsion and pyrotechnic compounds because of high burning rate. In this study, the pyrolysis hazard of aluminum dusts with different median size (sized by 70 nm, 100 nm, $6{\mu}m$, $15{\mu}m$) were investigated experimentally. The thermal decomposition characteristics of aluminum dusts with the variation of heating rate were investigated using TGA (Thermo gravimetric analysis) and was estimated the minimum ignition temperature from temperature of weight gain in nano and micro-sized aluminum dusts with different diameter. In the same condition of heating rate, the temperature of weight gain in aluminum dust layers increased with increasing of particle size and increased with increasing of heating rates in air. From the results, it was estimated that the pyrolysis hazard of aluminum dusts decrease with increasing of mean diameter.
Keywords
aluminium nanopowder; dust explosion; thermo gravimetric analysis; temperature of weight gain;
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