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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
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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
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.
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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