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IND EX® Explosion Safety Forum @POWTECH 24.09.2025

POWTECH 2025
At this year’s POWTECH in Nuremberg, our association will once again be proudly represented. We will be hosting a half-day IND EX® Explosion Safety Forum on September 24, 2025.
This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with leading professionals in the field, gain insights from real-life experiences, and discuss current challenges and solutions. Expand your expertise, benefit from the know-how of others, and grow your professional network through valuable new connections.
  • Update your knowledge on the safe handling of combustible dusts.
  • Learn from the experience of others - based on concrete case studies from practice.
  • Take advantage of this established industry event to exchange experiences and information with the leading experts in dust explosion protection.

Programme

Wednesday, 24. September 2025

13:00
Welcome and introduction by Dr. Johannes Lottermann, Aleksandar Agatonović IND EX® e. V.
13:30
Lessons learned from recent dust explosions and incidents by Dr. Kees van Wingerden, IND EX® e. V.
Why does it still go wrong? Do we never learn or could these accidents not have been prevented?
14:00
Difference of Explosion Isolation of gases and dusts by Alexander Heuberger, PROTEGO
Jürgen Kern, RICO Sicherheitstechnik AG
14:30
Real process conditions in laboratory scale – latest adoptions to 20l sphere and MIKE 3 by Roland Bunse, REMBE® Research+Technology Center GmbH
15:00
Break
15:30
Ignition prevention in dryers: self-ignition of dusts by Dr. Marc Scheid, FireEx Consultant GmbH
The probability and possibility of self-ignition in the light of prevailing process conditions and dust properties. Introduction of TSTools.
16:00
Functional Safety in Explosion Protection Approaches by Andreas Brandl – IEP Technologies GmbH
16:30
Effect of the shape of vent openings on the efficiency of venting devices by Marius Bloching, REMBE® GmbH Safety+Control
Experimental research demonstrates a strong improvement of the efficiency of venting devices for rectangular shaped venting devices.
16:45
Close day by Dr. Kees van Wingerden, IND EX® e. V.