• Assessment of dangerous goods/hazardous substances (fields in which legislation pertaining to dangerous goods and hazardous substances apply)
• Flammable bulk materials and dusts, solid fuels
• Explosive substances used by the chemical industry (German Explosives Act, fields in which legislation pertaining to dangerous goods and hazardous substances apply)
• Chemical process safety
• Information systems, CHEMSAFE®

• Flammable solids, self-heating and oxidising substances, substances that develop flammable gases when coming into contact with water, formulations containing ammonium nitrate
• Organic peroxides, self-reactive substances, desensitized explosives, nitrocellulose products, formulations with nitrate esters
• Advising and informing ministries, authorities, associations and industry
• Research in the field of chemical safety engineering
• Accident investigation
• Ongoing development of legal regulations and standards to establish safety standards and limit industrial risks
• Development of new testing methods and refinement of existing ones

• Testing methods for the categorisation/classification of hazardous substances and dangerous goods (methods according to Regulation (EC) No. 440/2008, the UN Manual of Tests and Criteria and the Hazardous Substances Ordinance)
• Thermal analysis methods
• Reaction calorimeter methods
• Methods for the investigation of fires and explosions of deposited and dispersed dusts
• Chromatographic, spectrometric and volumetric analytical methods
• Numerical simulations

In the database PUBLICA you will find publications by BAM employees.

Publications of the Reactive Substances and Systems division in PUBLICA

PUBLICA