Anders Lindborg: ASTI December 2005

Ammonia

➢ Ammonia is vital for plant and animal life.

➢ Environmentalists support ammonia as a natural refrigerant.

➢ Ammonia has a strong and pungent smell, humans don’t like.

➢ Ammonia is dangerous to people working with the chemical.

➢ Safety and emergency readiness are needed to control the

hazards, risks, and threats of an ammonia release

Environmental Impact

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Ammonia is a vital part of Earth’s life cycle - just as air and

water. It’s a natural part of our existence. ATSDR -

Ammonia Safety Training Institute 4-2

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If aqueous

ammonia is

allowed to reach

a live-body of

water, aquatic life

can be harmed.

About ½ a cup of un-ionized ammonia in one million gallons of

water can be lethal to freshwater fish.

Ammonia is naturally processed in liver, kidneys, and skeletal muscles

Ammonia is secreted through urine and breath

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Breathing NH3

• Continuously breathing 25 ppm = 379 mg/day

• Liver can process 130,000 mg/day, expelled during exhalation and as urea

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Vehicle SIP

Discussion:

Worker Safety

Emergency Response

Concerns

Shelter-in-Place

Readiness

Minot Challenges

SIP