Showing posts with label bench testing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bench testing. Show all posts

Monday, May 11, 2009

Testing Your Dust

In today's regulatory climate, having your dust tested is not only good practice, it has become a necessity. How well do you know your dust? is an in-depth article that reviews two separate types of testing:
  • Explosibility Testing - Used to determine whether a dust is combustible.

  • Bench Testing - Pinpoints numerous physical properties of a dust type.

This article also discusses specialized testing, which may be dictated for highly unusual or trouble-prone applications. Finally, a summary on the proper collection of a dust sample is provided.

Read the article here.