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Volume 11, Issue 4
1 April 1959
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Scientific Lubrication
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Review Article| April 01 1959

Oil Fires and Explosions in Compressed Air Systems

A.C. SMITH
A.C. SMITH
The Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2977-7224
Print ISSN: 0371-0947
© MCB UP Limited
1959
Scientific Lubrication (1959) 11 (4): 12–18.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb052563

FIRES and oil explosions are known to have occurred in compressed air systems since the earliest days of the air compressor. Attempts to make systematic surveys of the extent of the hazard have never given very comprehensive results, but there is no doubt that it deserves serious attention.

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