Getting Up Close with Glycol

Getting Up Close with Glycol: Glycol systems, and the ways in which breweries control for temperatures in general, have improved quite a bit over the past four decades. Now they’re safer and more efficient than ever.

Preventing leaks from bolted joints - flow control network

Preventing leaks from bolted joints- flow control network 

Extending the Life of Aging Pipeline Infrastructure

Good article by GPT Industries
Extending the Life of Aging Pipeline Infrastructure

Lessons From Deepwater Horizon are Particularly Relevant Today

Lessons From Deepwater Horizon are Particularly Relevant Today

Fire & blast in Dera Bassi, Punjab Chemicals & Crop Protection Ltd.

Oil blast safety ruling may have wider implications

Oil blast safety ruling may have wider implications

Death of maintenance worker

Death of maintenance worker in USA, 2006:

Incident occurred at a food processing plant.

Incident involved installing a temporary vacuum hose on a drain pipe to remove the ammonia 

from a refrigeration unit so they could replace a leaking cooling coil.

A pipe fitting split suddenly while workers were trying to drain anhydrous ammonia from 

refrigeration equipment, spraying anhydrous ammonia on the face.

Source: US Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Data and Statistics available at 

http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/index.html and US Chemical Safety Board news report www.csb.gov accessed on 10 March 2009.

Philadelphia Inquirer - Refinery explosion: How Philly dodged a catastrophe

Philadelphia Inquirer - Refinery explosion: How Philly dodged a catastrophe