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New Stinger Explosion Isolation Valve Protects Against Dust Collector Explosions
2014-06-23 08:33:50| pollutiononline News Articles
Camfil Air Pollution Control has introduced the Stinger™, an explosion isolation valve that isolates dust collector explosions to prevent a deflagration from traveling back through the inlet pipe of the dust collector into the workspace
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Car industry struggles to solve air bag explosions...
2014-06-22 19:40:28| Automakers - Topix.net
A year ago, Japan's Takata Corp, the world's second-largest maker of auto safety parts, believed it had finally contained a crisis more than a decade in the making.
Cable Glands reduce risk of explosions.
2014-06-06 14:30:34| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Designed to meet European ATEX directives for protecting employees, public, and environment from accidents due to explosions, Kopex-Ex™ SWA/SWB Cable Glands terminate steel wire armored (SWA) and steel wire braid (SWB) cable in control, instrumentation, power, and telecommunications applications. Products are applicable in oil and gas processing as well as marine environments; operate in temperatures up to 194°F; and also suit low-smoke, halogen-free, and flame-retardant applications. This story is related to the following:Cable Glands |
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Train Explosions Prompt Companies to Upgrade Oil Tankers Voluntarily
2014-02-21 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fuel Fix: Oil companies are rolling ahead of federal regulators to replace old tank cars following a series of fiery accidents involving crude-carrying trains. Canadian refiner Irving Oil and San Antonio-based Tesoro Corp. have pledged to replace older crude tankers in their fleet, after the aging DOT-111 models built before 2011 were deemed prone to rupture. Phillips 66 has said all of its crude-carrying tankers meet current standards and San Antonio`s Valero Energy Corp. said all of the railcars it...
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Defending the Earth from asteroids with high-powered nuclear explosions
2014-02-19 16:31:25| Extremetech
Professor Bong Wie's team at the University of Iowa has drawn up a plan to stop an asteroid from giving planet Earth a really bad day, but will we short-sighted humans ever build it?
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