IX - Casablanca (1987)

IX Congress Casablanca (1987)

Casablanca , Morocco

June 3rd - 6th 1987

9/1 Group A : Hygiene Practices

  • 9/1.1 Glass microballoons - a respiratory problem? R Craig, NEC Stevenston
  • 9/1.2 Nitroglycerine - another headache - R Craig, NEC Stevenston
  • 9/1.3 Status of French regulation concerning EGDN and NG exposure - P Chereau, SNPE

9/2 Group B : General safety problems in explosives factories with reference to production & storage

  • 9/2.1 Increase safety in design, production and storage of water based explosives - G Strachan, DuPont Co, USA
  • 9/2.2 Safety in manufacture and transportation of emulsion explosives - DG Fiore, Atlas Powder
  • 9/2.3 Dangers of electrostatics during the production of explosive devices - P Roeh, DNAG
  • 9/2.4 Detonation in detonating cord plant at the Ardeer site - NEC Stevenston, Scotland
  • 9/2.5 The DuPont approach to safety and health - Mr Verhaegen  Dupont de Nemours, Belgium
  • 9/2.6 Spontaneous combustion of cartridges of water gel containing aluminium - C Napoly, SNPE, Paris
  • 9/2.7 Accident in the Ablon dynamite plant 12.03.85 (NG, NC, DNT, premixture) - B Hueber, Nobel Explosifs, France
  • 9/2.8 Accident in the Ablon dynamite plant 05.03.87 (Nitroglycerine storage workshop) - B Hueber, Nobel Explosifs, France
  • 9/2.9 Tumbling barrel explosion - diagnosis and remedy (detonators) - AK Mukerjee, IDL India
  • 9/2.10 Hazard of static electricity in  explosives - SMS Naqvi, Pakistan Ordn Fact, Wah Cantt

9/3 Group C : Unusual occurrences - potential dangers - miss accidents

  • 9/3.1 Unexpected precipitation of RDX - Sven Rosell, Nitro Nobel AB, Gyttorp
  • 9/3.2 Dealing with a major NG explosion - G Woodford AECI Modderfontein
  • 9/3.3 Detonation of buried detonators at Cooke's Works - NEC Stevenston
  • 9/3.4 Excessive mechanical stress on electric & non-electric detonators - K Krapfenbauer, Schaffler & Co Vienna
  • 9/3.5 Explosion in a tank containing spent acid - M Solheim, Dyno Industrier AS Oslo
  • 9/3.6 Abnormal temperature rise in a Biazzi static separator - M Solheim, Dyno Industrier AS Oslo
  • 9/3.7 Accidental explosion of a road vehicle explosive charge - P Chereau, SNPE - NEF, Paris

9/4 Group D : Miscellaneous

  • 9/4.1 Computer simulation of the Biazzi nitration process - M Solheim, Dyno Industrier Oslo, Norway
  • 9/4.2 A new method for the investigation of the exothermic decomposition of explosives - N Fiederling, DNAG, Leverkusen
  • 9/4.3 Automatic process of handling spent acids in the manufacture of EDGN - ERT Explosives, Spain
  • 9/4.4 Environmental sampling of EDGN atmospheric concentrations by passive air - sampling units - ERT Explosives, Spain

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