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Guest Lecture FP 575: Explosion Protection Engineering - Hazardous Area Cla
 ssification
Fire Protection Engineering Department\nFPE SEMINAR SERIES\nGuest Lecture FP 575:
  Explosion Protection Engineering\nHazardous Area Classification\nJohn LeB
 lanc\nFM\nThursday, April 9, 2026\n11:00 – 12:00 pm EST\nhttps://wpi.zoo
 m.us/j/97396230897\nOnline Only\nBiography:\nJohn LeBlanc is a Staff Vice 
 President and Senior Engineering Technical Specialist within the Chief Eng
 ineer’s group of FM. John has been with FM for 40 years. John is respons
 ible for the development and updating of FM’s Property Loss Prevention D
 ata Sheets on ignitable liquid handling/storage, aerosol products, explosi
 on protection systems, and provides support to all of the special hazard s
 ubject matter experts who handle combustible dust standards, flammable gas
  standards, hazardous chemical standards and special protection systems. I
 n addition, he works with Research to support the development of research 
 programs to understand and protect client scenarios.\nJohn received a Bach
 elor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Case Western Reserve Universi
 ty and a Master of Science in Fire Protection Engineering from Worcester P
 olytechnic Institute. He serves on fifteen National Fire Protection Associ
 ation committees responsible for ignitable (flammable and/or combustible) 
 liquids (NFPA 30), aerosol products (NFPA 30B), finishing processes (NFPA 
 33/34), explosion protection systems (NFPA 67/68/69), static electricity (
 NFPA 77), hazardous chemicals (NFPA 400), the correlating committee for NF
 PA 13, and the three committees working on the creation of NFPA 660 combus
 tible dusts. He is chair of the NFPA 30 Correlating Committee and NFPA 30B
 . John has recently been appointed to the NFPA Standards Council. John is 
 a Fellow of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers and a member of the A
 merican Institute of Chemical Engineers.\nThis lecture is offered as part 
 of FP 575 (Explosion Protection Engineering) taught by Prof. Lorenz Boeck 
 for the Explosion Protection Engineering (XPE) – A new and exciting inte
 rdisciplinary MS program by Aerospace, Chemical, Civil, Fire Protection, a
 nd Mechanical Engineering at WPI.\nhttps://www.wpi.edu/academics/study/mas
 ter-science-explosion-protection-engineering\n
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