ALL:
I will be offering a workshop on handling highly reactive
chemistry in Boston on August 18.
We will address poly-nitro chemistry, azides, pyrophorics
and much more.
You can register today for less than $400! Go to
www.dchas.org for information and to register.
Here is the content:
INTRODUCTION
Instructor(s)
Workshop Purpose & Schedule
Handout Materials
CHEMICAL REACTIVITY HAZARD
Nature of the problem
Incident Review
Waste Nitric Acid Reaction
Tollen?s Reagent
UCLA fatality
TTU explosion/injury
Picric Acid Success non-incident
Definitions
Energetics and Kinetics
REACTIVITY SCREENING
Screening Flowsheet
Sources of Information
Screening Example: Organic Synthesis
Break
Screening Example: Reflux - Distillation
Screening Example: Incompatible Mixture ? Storage
Screening Example: Incompatible Mixture ? Lab Waste
Additional Sources of Information
Differential Scanning Calorimetry ? Thermogravimetric
Analysis
Oxygen Balance
REACTIVITY CONTROLS
Engineering
Ventilation
Cooling
Construction
Administrative
Process Scale
Separation
Design & Review
Application of Control Principles to Examples
Screening Example: Organic synthesis
Screening Example: Reflux/Distillation
Screening Example: Incompatibility
SUMMARY
Review of Workshop Key Points
Screening
Recognition
Control
Participant Discussion of How to Proceed
Participant Evaluation of Workshop
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NEAL LANGERMAN, Ph.D.
ADVANCED CHEMICAL SAFETY, Inc.
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