Suppression characteristics of double-layer wire mesh on wheat dust flame

Abstract Dust explosion accidents frequently occur in dedusting pipes of wheat dust, causing huge casualties and property losses. In this paper, a vertical pipeline of combustion experimental platform was established to obtain the effects of working conditions and double-layer wire mesh parameters on wheat dust flame propagation. The results show that the double-layer wire mesh has an obvious suppression effect on the flame propagation of wheat dust. At the combination of the same mesh number, both the peak flame temperature and the maximum flame propagation velocity decreased with the increasing of the mesh number, and the flame quenching phenomenon occurs at 80 mesh. At the combination of different mesh numbers, the flame temperature at the upper-density and lower-sparseness combination is lower than that at the upper-sparseness and lower-density combination under all working conditions. The flame temperature difference (ΔT) gradually increases with the increasing of mesh number difference, and the maximum ΔT appears at the mesh difference of 40 mesh. As the separation distance increases, the flame temperature rises, and the suppression effect is best at the separation distance of 1 cm. The peak combustion pressure is negatively linear with the separation distance.