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174 Times and then KaBoom

You may have read about the 2007 incident at T2 laboratories  in Florida – the explosion killed four of the company’s 12 employees, injured four other workers

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Screening Reactive Chemicals

I recently wrote a guest post on Mettler Toledo’s blog on theoretical ways to screen reactive chemicals.  Here is a link: http://tinyurl.com/screen-reactive-chemicals

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Check Valve Failures

Check valves are commonly used in the process industry for preventing back-flow or reverse flow. Check valves achieve unidirectional flow by means of a mechanical

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Exploding Concrete

I recently came across a very interesting incident involving foam concrete. Foam concrete is produced by mechanical mixing of foam prepared in advance with concrete

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Regulating Reactive Chemicals

Recently, members of  Congress sent a letter to OSHA chief, Jordan Barab, to expand PSM standard to address reactive chemicals. Reactive chemicals have gained increasing

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Reactive Chemicals

Reactive chemicals refer to chemicals that can react with self or with other chemicals or contaminants leading to extremely high reaction rates. The high reaction

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Explosion at Biodiesel Plant – July 2009

The biodiesel and biofuel industry is demonstrating a disturbing trend of unsafe operations. The biodiesel industry is experiencing one fire/explosion incident EVERY two-and-a-half months. Last Friday, there was

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Reactive Chemical Hazards

Certain chemicals can pose explosion hazards due to their inherent reactivity or interaction with other chemicals or metals.  A few years ago the Chemical Safety

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