RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Brinellgatan 4, Box 857
SE-501 15 Borås, Schweden
phone +46 10 516 5270
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Contact Partner:
Chen Huang
RISE is the Swedish Research Institute and innovation partner. In international collaboration with industry, academia and the public sector, we ensure the competitiveness of the business community and contribute to a sustainable society.
Our 2,800 employees support and promote all manner of innovative processes. RISE is an independent, state-owned research institute that offers unique expertise and about 100 testbeds and demonstration facilities, instrumental in future-proofing technologies, products and services. RISE Safety and Transport division has six pieces of equipment for measuring nine dust explosive parameters according to European, American and global standards. This includes for example a Hartmann tube for screening test, a 20 L spherical vessel for maximum explosion pressure Pmax and deflagration index KSt a modified Hartmann tube for MIE (Minimum Ignition Energy) of dust cloud, a GG-oven for MIT (Minimum Ignition Temperature) of dust cloud a hot plate for MIT of dust layer and resistivity test. In parallel RISE Safety and Transport division performs high quality research on dust explosion modelling using physics-based models and open-source code.