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

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 [...]
Particulate Materials and Facility Stoppage
In today’s competitive market, improving manufacturing efficiency and product quality is critical. The global demand for innovation and high-quality products is increasing rapidly. To stay competitive, companies invest millions in facility upgrades and equipment to boost production, meet safety regulations, and cut costs. Facility stoppages, however, remain a costly problem, with studies showing [...]
Wear of the pneumatic pipeline walls: contaminating of the conveyed material
Pneumatic conveying systems (PCS) are essential in industries that handle bulk solids, moving materials from fine powders to mm-sized granules. By suspending particles in an air stream, PCS can transport materials horizontally, vertically, or at an incline over distances ranging from a few meters to hundreds. With the system fully enclosed, there is [...]