Dustiness

Dustiness refers to the tendency of fine particles to become airborne during handling, processing, or transport. This phenomenon poses challenges for industries such as pharmaceuticals, food, and chemicals, impacting worker safety, environmental compliance, and material loss.

On this page, discover the causes of dustiness, its measurement techniques, and strategies to reduce dust emissions, ensuring safer and more efficient industrial operations.

Featured Dustiness articles

Case Study: Mitigating Spatter-Induced Powder Contamination in Laser-Powder-Bed-Fusion (LPBF) Production of Inconel 718 Aerospace Components
LPBF spatter contamination mitigation - Treating spatter as both a fluid-dynamic and metallurgical challenge—optimizing shielding-gas flow, retuning laser parameters, and adding real-time optical monitoring—AeroFab slashed Inconel 718 LPBF scrap from 8 % to 1.3 % while tightening mechanical-property scatter, proving that disciplined spatter control is the fastest route to flight-qualified, cost-effective metal AM [...]
Powder Hazards: Safe Powder Storage and Handling Practices
Understanding your powder’s physical and chemical behavior is essential to preventing accidents. By applying proper storage methods, using enclosed and grounded handling systems, maintaining clean and functional equipment, and preparing for emergencies, you can reduce the risks associated with powder hazards while improving process safety and product quality. Table [...]
Dust Explosion Risks and Safety Protocols with Michel Vandeweyer
As a featured speaker at Dustiness Day 2024, Michel Vandeweyer will shed light on the complexities of dust explosions, unraveling their core principles, demonstrating the phenomenon live, and sharing lessons from a compelling case study. His combination of deep theoretical knowledge and practical experience—as a production supervisor and head of internal fire safety—positions [...]
Cosmic Dust its Role in Celestial Formation
Powder Technology on a Grand Scale Powder technology plays a crucial role in shaping our planet. From the formation of Earth by cosmic dust to ongoing geological forces, powder-like interactions are present everywhere. During Earth’s formation, microscopic particles merged and solidified, gradually creating the landscapes we see today. Even now, erosion, weathering, [...]
Powder processing and their diverse phenomena
The term "atom" originated in ancient Greece around 400 B.C., stemming from atomos, which means "indivisible" or "uncuttable." While the term persists, science now shows that atoms can split through fission reactions. Yet, atoms remain the foundational particles of matter, each uniquely defining an element on the periodic table. Atoms begin their journey [...]