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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines from Google (7 articles)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 08:29:32 -0400
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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 8:16:57 AM
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Table of Contents (7 articles)
VIDEO OF JIM BEAM FIRE TORNADO COULD HELP CLEAN UP OIL SPILLS
Tags: us_MD, industrial, follow-up, environmental, other_chemical
CHEMICALS USED TO MAKE METH CLOSE LEXINGTON STREET
Tags: us_KY, public, release, response, drugs
SHRINKING THE INSIDE OF AN EXPLOSION: NEW INSTRUMENT IMPROVES STUDIES OF EXPLOSIONS; HELPS CONTROL HOT SPOTS -- SCIENCEDAILY
Tags: us_IL, laboratory, discovery, environmental, explosives
ROBOTIC CHEMISTRY SETS FOR THE CLASSROOM
Tags: United_Kingdom, laboratory, discovery, environmental
HOT PEPPERS PROMPT HAZMAT RESPONSE ON VAN AUKER ST.
Tags: us_NY, public, release, response, unknown_chemical
SMITHFIELD PACKING PLANT, NEARBY HOMES EVACUATED AFTER CHEMICAL REACTION
Tags: us_NC, industrial, release, injury, bleach
WORKER TREATED AFTER CHEMICAL SPILL AT EXPERA SPECIALTY SOLUTIONS IN KAUKAUNA
Tags: us_WI, industrial, release, injury, bleach
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VIDEO OF JIM BEAM FIRE TORNADO COULD HELP CLEAN UP OIL SPILLS
Tags: us_MD, industrial, follow-up, environmental, other_chemical
A video showing 800,000 gallons of spilled Jim Beam being sucked into a fiery vortex was the inspiration for a study detailing a new form of fuel-spill cleanup.
The new study from University of Maryland researchers Huahua Xiao, Michael Gollner and Elaine Oran on fire whirls, which are tornadoes set ablaze through natural phenomena, suggests that these twisters might be more than ‰??a strong, essentially uncontrollable threat to life, property and surrounding environments.‰??
One of the first sparks of inspiration for the study was a 2003 video from famed storm videographer Mike Theiss.
The aerial video shows a giant fire whirl engulfing a retention pond outside a Jim Beam warehouse in Bardstown. The fire was started after the warehouse was hit by lightning. The video was uploaded on YouTube in 2011.
Oran found the footage online in fall 2013 and shared it with her co-authors.
‰??We began to wonder whether there could be some use to fire whirls, not just to scare the bejeesus out of anyone near it,‰?? Oran said. ‰??It was pulling the fuel to it from the surface of the lake. We said, OK, let‰??s look at fire whirls on water. Maybe it would be useful for remediation.‰??
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CHEMICALS USED TO MAKE METH CLOSE LEXINGTON STREET
Tags: us_KY, public, release, response, drugs
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) - A chemical spill on Locust Avenue caused a headache for drivers Tuesday afternoon.
Lexington Fire said the chemicals discovered were components of meth manufacturing. Hazmat crews arrived on scene to clean up the chemicals.
Locust Avenue was closed for around thirty minutes to allow crews to rummage through the trash where the chemicals were found.
The scene has since cleared and traffic is flowing normally.
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SHRINKING THE INSIDE OF AN EXPLOSION: NEW INSTRUMENT IMPROVES STUDIES OF EXPLOSIONS; HELPS CONTROL HOT SPOTS -- SCIENCEDAILY
Tags: us_IL, laboratory, discovery, environmental, explosives
Testing explosions is epic science. The most detailed studies of explosive charges have been conducted at national laboratories using a gun as big as a room to fire a flat bullet -- the flyer plate, typically 100 millimeters in diameter -- into an explosive charge inside a thick-walled chamber that contains the fierce blast. The tests require enormous facilities.
Though cumbersome, the flat plate impact is the only way to precisely recreate the conditions inside a detonating explosive -- and now researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have recreated this in miniature on a tabletop. In the process, they have made important new contributions to the field of energetic materials by precisely recreating conditions inside a bomb and achieving new levels of accuracy in measuring them.
Their results inform a topic known as the hot spot model of explosive initiation by revealing the dynamics of hot spot growth. That's important because their long-term goal with improved testing is to make safer explosives -- and eliminating hot spots is one way to do that. Their report appears this week in the journal Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing.
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ROBOTIC CHEMISTRY SETS FOR THE CLASSROOM
Tags: United_Kingdom, laboratory, discovery, environmental
The mass production of the BBC microcomputer, designed primarily for education and used extensively in schools and homes in the UK in the 1980s, is a significant milestone in the UK‰??s computing history. While it is hard to quantify the impact of the BBC‰??s computer literacy project, it is fair to say it inspired a generation of programmers and can be credited with laying the foundation for the UK‰??s current leading role in the IT, computer game design and digital media industries. This area has undergone something of a renaissance in recent years, with affordable microcomputers such as the Raspberry Pi and Arduino enabling more people to learn to programme. The BBC itself has recently gone full circle in releasing the BBC micro:bit, a pocket-sized codeable computer which, in 2015, was provided free to every child in year 7 across the UK.
A digital chemistry education project could emulate the BBC‰??s success by developing cheap, customisable platforms allowing students to simultaneously learn in the areas of chemistry, electronics and computer science. In our lab, we are planning a roadmap to develop chemical robots and help teachers gain access to new resources for teaching practical chemistry, especially in schools with limited facilities or specialist teaching resources ‰?? a well-known issue in pre-university chemistry education.
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HOT PEPPERS PROMPT HAZMAT RESPONSE ON VAN AUKER ST.
Tags: us_NY, public, release, response, unknown_chemical
Microwaved hot peppers prompted a Hazmat response on Van Auker Street on Monday.
Rochester firefighters say they were called to an apartment building on Van Auker Street near Atkinson Street around 10 a.m. for complaints of an odor in the hallway causing residents to cough and have trouble breathing.
When investigators searched the building they came across a 55-gallon drum in one of the first floor rooms. Firefighters say they declared a Hazmat situation "due to the unusual and possibly hazardous nature of a large drum in a residential building and the potential life safety issue in regards to the 150 apartments in the 11-story structure."
Fire crews helped evacuate 20 residents on the first floor while the drum was investigated. They later found it wasn't a danger, filled with "innocuous materials."
Investigators determined the cause of the odor was a tenant who had microwaved hot peppers causing Capsaicin -- the active component in peppers -- to be released in the air.
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SMITHFIELD PACKING PLANT, NEARBY HOMES EVACUATED AFTER CHEMICAL REACTION
Tags: us_NC, industrial, release, injury, bleach
TAR HEEL, N.C. (WECT) ‰?? Smithfield Packing Plant in Tar Heel and nearby homes were evacuated after a chemical reaction Monday morning.
According to Bladen County Emergency Management Director Bradley Kinlaw, seven employees were taken to the hospital with minor injuries after a chemical reaction occurred between sodium hypochlorite and acid during a cleaning process at approximately 3:30 a.m.
Several nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution.
Emergency crews ventilated the building, and employees were allowed back into the plant at about 8:15 a.m.
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WORKER TREATED AFTER CHEMICAL SPILL AT EXPERA SPECIALTY SOLUTIONS IN KAUKAUNA
Tags: us_WI, industrial, release, injury, bleach
KAUKAUNA, Wis. (WBAY) ‰?? One person was treated for injuries from inhaling a chemical that spilled at Expera Specialty Solutions in Kaukauna Monday morning.
The fire department was dispatched at 9:19 a.m. for a report that as much as 200 gallons of sodium hypochlorite spilled at the paper mill on the 600-block of Thilmany Road.
Plant workers evacuated, the fire department says.
Expera Specialty Solutions says the man affected wasn‰??t an employee but was a contractor. He was transported to the ThedaCare Regional Medical Center in Appleton. The company says he was treated and released.
Sodium hypochlorite is diluted with water to make common bleach. According to the National Institutes of Health, it can cause respiratory irritation, skin burns and eye damage.
A hazardous materials team from Appleton was able to stop the fluid leak and determined about 20 to 30 gallons spilled.
Once the spill was cleaned up, the chemical could be treated through the paper mill‰??s water treatment plant and the air ventilated with the plant‰??s ventilation system.
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