Nice link BTW Todd, thanks... was there something about coal?

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Casterline [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Fertilizer Plant

But is not an explosion simply very rapid combustion?

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Williams [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Fertilizer Plant

Coal dust, if airborne, would explode rather than burn. Here's a link 
you might show that guy http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80623061/


At 04:41 PM 2/23/2011, you wrote:
>Coal dust is used in a process to manufacture fertilizer, in a 40,000
sq.ft.
>building, about 28 feet high. The issue is whether the building has to be
>sprinklered. The owner claims the coal is non-combustible and thus the
>building occupancy is low hazard industrial, in which case it would not
have
>to be sprinklered. Anyone can comment on the occupancy?
>
>Tony
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