Equipment and method used to characterise the flammability and explosibility of products handled during the manufacture of animal feeds

A product’s flammability and explosibility potential is reflected in two criteria:

• Its flammability value – that can be defined as “its ignition behaviour”. Knowledge of this value is crucial to the explosion prevention process (definition of maximum permissible temperatures on machine surfaces or heated bodies, control of static electricity, etc.)

• Its explosion severity – that expresses its “explosion behaviour”. Knowledge of this value is used in the explosion prevention process (to establish device resistances, vent dimensions, etc.)