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Combustible Dust Testing
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Dust Explosion Testing

Sigma-HSE’s UK based combustible dust testing laboratory generates ISO/IEC:17025 accredited data for your combustible dust and powders to aid you in characterising, preventing, protecting and mitigating combustible dust fires and explosion hazards.

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Why is Combustible Dust Testing Essential?

Combustible dust testing is essential for industries that handle fine particulate materials. With thorough dust testing, you can:

  • Identify dust hazards that could lead to explosions, fires, or other serious incidents.
  • Assess the explosibility of dust particles, including their size, concentration, and ignition sensitivity.
  • Develop effective strategies to mitigate dust-related risks and enhance workplace safety.
  • Ensure adherence to safety regulations and industry standards to mitigate risks of penalties, operational disruptions, or reputational damage.

By partnering with Sigma-HSE you can incorporate combustible dust testing into your safety protocols to better manage risks, safeguard your workforce, and maintain operational integrity.

Start your combustible dust testing journey with Sigma-HSE 

Protecting your people, workplaces, business and the environment from an explosion, fire or other combustible dust hazard relies on the identification, mitigation and maintenance of your combustible dusts.

Sigma-HSE’s ISO 17025 accredited combustible dust testing laboratory offer comprehensive testing solutions with a 7–10 day turnaround to aid you in the identification and characterisation of your hazardous materials and their related risks to combustible dust explosions.

We undertake the following combustible dust tests to simulate a primary dust explosion, secondary dust explosion and/or dust ignition:

  • Dust Combustibility (Group A/B)

  • Minimum Ignition Energy (MIE)

  • Minimum Ignition Temperature (MIT)

  • Layer Ignition Temperature (LIT)

  • Explosion Severity Test (Pmax/KST) ST Classification

  • Minimum Explosive Concentration (MEC)

  • Limiting Oxygen Concentration (LOC)

  • Burning Behaviour

UNDERSTAND YOUR PROCESS HAZARDS AT SOURCE WITH OUR DUST EXPLOSION TESTING SOLUTIONS

Sigma-HSE is your single solution provider for a full range of combustible dust testing

Find out how Sigma-HSE
can help you prevent combustible dust explosion accidents

Our dedicated team of experts is committed to helping ensure that your dusts will not generate fires or dust explosion so you can maintain a safer working environment and comply with the regulatory standards.

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Discover our range of combustible dust testing solutions

DUST COMBUSTIBILITY (GROUP A/B)

MINIMUM IGNITION ENERGY (MIE)

MINIMUM IGNITION TEMPERATURE (MIT)

LAYER IGNITION TEMPERATURE (LIT)

EXPLOSION SEVERITY (PMAX & KST)

MINIMUM EXPLOSION CONCENTRATION (MEC)

LIMITING OXYGEN CONCENTRATION (LOC)

BURNING BEHAVIOUR

Sigma-HSE offer customised dust explosion guidance for your business
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Get in touch with one of our experts to learn how our combustible dust testing solutions can help you prevent dust explosions, fires, and other and drive process safety success

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Electronics Industry

"I would like to highlight the prompt and professional response to our testing enquiry, the quick turnaround time for the tests and report was unrivalled."

Energy Industry

"Excellent service – clear quotation, helpful discussion regarding samples on delivery and rapid turn-round."

Life Sciences Industry

"Our site was inexperienced with testing particulate matter for potential combustibility, the guidance received from Gavin was excellent."

How to test your combustible dust

Receive quick and accurate ISO 17025 accredited combustible dust testing data in just a few simple steps

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Get in touch with one of our dust testing experts so we can learn more about your process, unit operations and dust testing requirements. After discussing what dust explosion test methods would suit your process, we will generate and send you a customised quote.

Prepare & ship

Prepare your material samples and ship them to one of our globally accredited dust explosion testing laboratories (UK or India).

Analysis & Reports

Once we've received your sample, we'll begin testing and analysing to ISO 17025. We'll then create and send you an actionable in-depth peer-reviewed report detailing the potential explosivity of your dusts.

Post-project support

After receiving your dust data, our team will be on hand to assist you with any questions you may have about preventative and protective measures for your process.

Understand your combustible dusts and the dangers they pose

Combustible dust and powder testing is an important aspect of safety fire and explosion hazard compliance. Learn more about how we can help you to define your dusts explosivity and ignition sensitivity, so you can prevent fire and explosions, and fine tune your process specifications
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