[:en]CEE 1. Objectives and Introduction[:]

[:en]This course is available for period of 90 days after purchasing. It can be reviewed 5 times in this period. After finishing a section click on Complete and follow to the next section.

Course Objectives

It is expected that at the end of this course you will:

1. Know the causes of self-heating of grains and their products such as seed cake, pellets, pulp, meal, and expellers, including oilseeds and extensive to fishmeal
2. Understand the concept of water activity and its relationship with the product moisture and temperature.
3. Understand the mechanism of self-heating microbiological origin of grains and other products by mold growth.
4. Know the role of fat oxidation as a necessary factor for spontaneous combustion of grains and other products.
5. Be acquanted of the external sources of heating, including hot surfaces in ship holds, infestation and fumigation
6. Know the mechanism triggering spontaneous combustion
7. Know the mode of heat propagation in stored grains and their products
8. Study the causes that can trigger the process of carbonization
9. Be able to analyze if a lot presenting self-heating is in risk of future spontaneous combustion
10. Know the measures to reduce the risks of spontaneous combustion
11. Know some techniques for firefighting grain fires
12. Be acquantied of the regulations of the  IMSBC (International Maritime Solid Buld Cargo) Code for the maritime transportation of seed cake, cereal grains, oilseeds and other products.

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