In order to fully
understand the explosion risk of electrostatic
spraying powder, corresponding preventive measures are put forward.
The explosion characteristics, ignition sensitivity, and flame propagation
of three typical electrostatic spraying powders were tested using
a 20 L spherical explosion test device, a G–G furnace test
device, and a Hartmann tube test device, and the explosion process
and mechanism of electrostatic spraying powders were discussed. The
results show that the maximum explosion pressure and the maximum explosion
pressure rise rate increase first and then decrease with the increase
in mass concentration. The maximum explosion pressure and the maximum
explosion pressure rise rate of acrylic powder coating are the largest,
which are 0.75 and 85.4 MPa/s, respectively. The shortest burning
time is 97.5 ms, and the highest explosion danger level is 23.46 MPa·m/s.
The flame propagation of electrostatic spraying powder develops slowly;
the flame front spreads linearly and the average flame velocity increases
first and then decreases. The explosive development process of powder
coating particles is concentrated in the three-phase system of solid
particles, molten particles, and pyrolytic gasification combustible
gas, which goes through the kinetic process of particle heating melting,
cross-linking curing, pyrolytic gasification, combustion, and extinction.