Explosive Technology and Safety detailed syllabus for Safety & Fire Engineering (SFE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the SFE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Safety & Fire Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit SFE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to SFE Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of explosive technology and safety is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF FIRE 9
Chemistry of Explosives – Chemical reactions – Categories of explosives by chemical type – Use forms of Explosives, Propellants, and Pyrotechnics. Mechanics of Burning – Burning model -Geometry shape of grains.
Unit II
MECHANISM OF SOUND AND SHOCK 9
Sound, shock and Detonation – Sound waves – shock waves – Detonation waves – Explosive output tests. Initiation and initiators – Initiation theory and criteria – Initiation sensitivity testing -Non electric initiators – Hot-wire initiators – exploding bridge wire detonators – Slapper detonators.
Unit III
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Unit IV
EXPLOSION PROTECTING SYSTEMS 9
“Classification, Transportation and Storage of Explosives – Explosives classification – Transportation of explosives – Storage of explosives. Explosive Facilities and Explosives Operations – Explosive facilities – Explosive operations – Goodwork practices – Maintenance – Explosive waste- Spills and general cleaning – Explosive handling.
Unit V
INDUSTRIAL FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEMS 9
Sprinkler-hydrants-stand pipes – special fire suppression systems like deluge and emulsifier, selection criteria of the above installations, reliability, maintenance, evaluation and standards -alarm and detection systems. Other suppression systems – CO2 system, foam system, dry chemical powder (DCP) system, halon system – need for halon replacement – smoke venting. Portable extinguishers – flammable liquids – tank farms – indices of inflammability-firefighting systems.
Text Books:
- Handbook of FIRE AND EXPLOSION PROTECTION ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES third edition.
- 2014, DENNIS P. NOLAN, 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495, USAGupta, R.S., “Hand Book of Fire Technology” Orient Longman Bombay 1977.
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