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                                           FELT  SEAL  FOR
                                           PULLEY SHAFT
                                            NO  STEEL COVER





















      Figure 2.4  Head of bucket elevator at new part of Stavanger Port Silo, where the minor  1988 wheat
      grain dust explosion was initiated (Courtesy of 0. Olsen, Stavanger Port Silo, Norway).






















                                            Figure 2.5  Burned, charred felt seat of the eleva-
                                            tor pulley shaft at Stavanger Port Silo (Courtesy of
                                            0. Olsen, Stavanger Port Silo, Norway).




      2.3.3
      GRAIN DUST (BARLEY/OATS), HEAD HOUSE OF THE SILO
      PLANT AT  KAMBO, JUNE 1976

      This explosion, described by Storli (personal communication, K. Storli, Norwegian fac-
      tory in reply to inspectorate, 1976), caused considerable material damage but, due to for-
      tunate circumstances, neither fatalities nor significant injuries. The dust involved was from
      Norwegian barley or oats.
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