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The 2020 edition of NFPA 61 helps you implement appropriate dust control measures and improve safety.

In agricultural and food processing facilities, dust control is particularly important to safeguard lives, property, and commodities from potentially deadly and highly destructive fire and explosion hazards.

NFPA 61: Standard for the Prevention of Fires and Dust Explosions in Agricultural and Food Processing Facilities governs facilities that handle bulk agricultural materials, their by-products, and other combustible dusts with requirements for facility construction, ventilation and venting, heat transfer operations, dust control measures, equipment design and installation, explosion prevention and protection, pneumatic conveying, and building fire prevention.

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Published:
01/17/2020
Number of Pages:
83

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The 2017 edition of NFPA 61 helps you implement appropriate dust control measures and improve safety.

In agricultural and food processing facilities, dust control is particularly important to safeguard lives, property, and commodities from potentially deadly and highly destructive fire and explosion hazards.

NFPA 61: Standard for the Prevention of Fires and Dust Explosions in Agricultural and Food Processing Facilities governs facilities that handle bulk agricultural materials, their by-products, and other combustible dusts with requirements for facility construction, ventilation and venting, heat transfer operations, dust control measures, equipment design and installation, explosion prevention and protection, pneumatic conveying, and building fire prevention.

Make sure you’re working with the latest provisions including:

  • Changes that align with the newly issued NFPA 652: Standard on the Fundamentals of Combustible Dust
  • Added objectives in Chapter 4: General Requirements
  • New Chapter 5: Hazard Identification
  • New Chapter 6: Performance-Based Design Option
  • New requirements in Chapter 7: Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA)
  • Updated table on agricultural dust test data

NFPA 61 is a critical resource for facility owner/operators, safety and health consultants, and enforcers responsible for protection of lives and property in bulk agricultural processing facilities; animal feed production facilities; starch manufacturing facilities; and food production facilities such as bakeries, cereal manufacturing facilities, snack food production, and candy manufacturing.

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Published:
06/02/2016
ISBN(s):
9781455913886
Number of Pages:
67

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The 2013 edition of NFPA 61 emphasizes dust control measures for agricultural and food processing facilities.

Updated with new references and definitions, and an expanded solution to the recurring problem of accumulations of fugitive combustible dust, the 2013 NFPA 61: Standard for the Prevention of Fires and Dust Explosions in Agricultural and Food Processing Facilities helps you protect lives and property in facilities that handle bulk agricultural materials, their by-products, and other combustible dusts. The Standard addresses facility construction, dust control measures, and equipment installation, plus contains numerous other requirements.

Make sure you’re working with the latest provisions including:

  • New definitions for equipment handling combustible agricultural products
  • New emphasis on dust control measures for equipment handling agricultural products that generate combustible dust
  • Updated deflagration venting requirements for rooms, buildings, and other enclosures to be designed in accordance with NFPA 68: Standard on Explosion Protection by Deflagration Venting
  • Updated deflagration venting requirements for equipment and dust collectors inside of buildings
  • Updated references correlate with current codes and standards

The important additions above make the 2013 edition essential for facility owner/operators, safety and health consultants, and enforcers responsible for protection of lives and property in bulk agricultural processing facilities; animal feed production facilities; starch manufacturing facilities; and food production facilities such as bakeries, cereal manufacturing facilities, snack food production, and candy manufacturing.

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Published:
08/09/2012
ISBN(s):
9781455904167
Number of Pages:
38

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