Application of an Enhanced Version of Recursive Operability Analysis for Combustible Dusts Risk Assessment.

Organic dust explosions were and are still today a critical issue in the food, pharmaceutical, and fine chemical industry. Materials such as flour, corn starch, sugar and APIs represent a cause of severe accidents. In this framework, we investigated a modified version of Recursive Operability Analysis-Incidental Sequence Diagrams (ROA-ISD), called ROA Plus-ISD, specifically tailored to describe industrial processes involving organic combustible dusts.