Coal dust explosion is a major accident affecting the safety of coal mine
production. In order to control coal dust explosion, using inert dust to
suppress explosion is one of the effective methods. Taking the gas-fat coal
as the research object and CaCO3, NaCl, and NH4H2PO4 as the inert dust, the
suppression effect of inert dust on gas-fat coal dust explosion pressure and
flame is studied. It is found that when the gas-fat coal dust particle size
is 48~58 ?m, both the maximum pressure and the farthest distance of flame
reach the maximum value. Among the three inert dusts, NH4H2PO4 has the best
suppression effect, followed by NaCl, and CaCO3 has the worst suppression
effect on explosion. The smaller the particle size of NH4H2PO4, the better
the explosion suppression effect. When the mass percentage of NH4H2PO4 mixed
into gas-fat coal dust is 60%, and the particle size of NH4H2PO4 is 0~38 ?m,
the explosion is completely suppressed, it is mainly due to the isolation of
the coal dust particles from the oxygen and the dilution of the oxygen
concentration.