Organizer：State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology

                    Collaborative Innovation Center of Safety and Protection

Title：         Dust explosions-ignition of combustible dust clouds

Reporter：  Prof. Rolf K.Eckhoff

                    University of Bergen

Time：        3:00p.m., May 3, 2017

Venue：      Building 9, Room617, Beijing Institute of Technology

Biography：

        Prof. Eckhoff was appointed at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen, Norway. His main research areas include powder technology, accidental dust explosions and accidental gas explosions. Several books and special issue of international journal and about 120 papers in international and national technical/scientific journal have been published from 1964 till today. Besides, Prof. Eckhoff has advised industry and public agencies on powder technology and explosion protection in USA, Canada, Israel, Bahrain, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, India, China, Australia and Brazil. In 2005, as the only invited expert from outside USA, Prof. Eckhoff participated in the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) public hearing in Washington DC on how to deal with the increasing number of serious dust explosion accidents in US industries. Prof. Eckhoff is a member of the editorial board of "Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries" and of several Norwegian and international working groups on process-safety-related topics related to the Internat.Electrotech.Comm. (IEC) and the European CEN/CENELEC.