Guidelines for Safe Storage and Handling of Reactive Materials [Hardcover]

With new and growing interest in dealing with the hazards of reactive chemicals, this book offers guidelines that can significantly reduce the risk or mitigate the severity of accidents associated with storing and handling reactive materials. Necessary elements of a reliable system to prevent equipment or human failures that might lead to a reactive chemical incident are sound and responsible management policies, together with a combination of superior siting, design, fabrication, erection, inspection, monitoring, maintenance, operations and maintenance of facilities. These Guidelines deal with all of these elements with emphasis on design considerations.Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Acronyms.

Introduction.

1. Chemical Reactivity Hazards.

1.1 Framework for Understanding Reactivity Hazards.

1.1.1 Grouping of Reactivity Hazards into General Categories.

1.1.2 Key Parameters That Drive Reactions.

1.1.3 Types of Runaway Reactions.

1.1.4 How Reactive Chemical Storage and Handling Accidents Are Initiated.

1.2 Self-Reactive Polymerizing Chemicals.

1.2.1 Thermal Instability.

1.2.2 Induction Time.

1.2.3 Example.

1.3 Self-Reactive Decomposing Chemicals.

1.3.1 Peroxides.

1.3.2 Self-Accelerating Decomposition Temperature.

1.3.3 Predicting Instability Potential.

1.3.4 Deflagration and Detonation of Pure Material.

1.3.5 Slow Gas-Forming Reactions.

1.3.6 Heat of Compression.

1.3.7 Minimum Pressure for Vapor Decomposition.

1.3.8 Shock Sensitivity.

1.3.9 Examples of Shock Sensitivity.

1.4 Self-Reactive Rearranging Chemicals.