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Dust explosions always claim lives and cause huge financial loses. Dust explosion risk can be prevented by inherently safer design or mitigated by engineering protective system. Design of explosion prevention and protection need comprehensive knowledge and data on the process, workshop, equipment, and particulate combustible materials. The knowledge includes standards, expertise of experts, and practical experience. The databases include accidents, dust explosion characteristics, inherently safer design methods, and protective design methods. Integration of such a comprehensive knowledge system is very helpful. The developed system has the following functions: risk assessment, accident analysis, recommendation of prevention and protection solution, and computer aided design of explosion protection. The expert system is based on Browser/Server architecture. The software was developed using mixed programming of ASP.Net and Prolog. The developed expert system can be an assistant to explosion design engineers and safety engineers of combustible dust handling plant.
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Zhang, Q., Zhong, S., Jiang, G. (2011). Framework of an Expert System for Dust Explosion Risk Management Based on ASP.Net and Prolog. In: Shen, G., Huang, X. (eds) Advanced Research on Computer Science and Information Engineering. CSIE 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 153. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21411-0_70
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