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
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
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