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Venting is a widely applied method to protect buildings and technological equipment from effects of internal explosion. The key problem in venting is the adequate design of vent area and an effective material of venting element. Α set of 76 experiments on partly confined methane-air mixture explosions with various parameters was processed. In terms of experiments, vent areas and venting elements with variable values of static activation pressure were changed. During measurements, certain items were determined at steady stoichiometric mixture concentration and atmospheric conditions: reduced explosion pressures, rates of reduced explosion pressures rise, temperatures, flame lengths and deformations of experimental equipment enclosure. Together with experiments, modelling of these processes was carried out by the codes based on computer fluid dynamic (CFD) using numerical tool FLACS (Flame Acceleration Simulator). Results of experiments and CFD models are analysed and compared to each other.

This article focuses on determination of the minimum ignition energy of dust. For the measurement of the minimum ignition energy of dust are available device from different manufacturers. In this article, the comparison device from three manufacturers - Chilworth, Kühner and Anko are executed. For the experimental measurement of the minimum minimum ignition energy was chosen 5 dust samples so that they are represented sample of organic dust, synthetic organic dust and coal dust. The article briefly introduces each apparatus for determining the minimum ignition energy and there is a comparison of the results obtained with individual devices. Finally, it is an assessment the results obtained and used test equipment.

The contribution is focused on the theoretical calculations of the influence of the temperature on the concentration explosive limits of flammable liquids using empirical formulas. The first part of the paper is concerned with the theoretical basis of computation according to empirical formulas. The other part deals with experimental verification of the theoretical assumption of the calculation of the influence of the temperature on the concentration explosive limits of flammable liquids.