In-depth survey report: control technology for chemical process unit operations at ICI Americas Inc., Bayport, Texas.

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• Personal Author:
  Froehlich PA
• Description:
  A survey of control technology for reducing ethylene-oxide (75218) exposures at ICI Americas Incorporated (SIC-2869), Bayport, Texas was conducted in March, 1984. The production process was located outdoors using tightly closed and highly automated process equipment. Ethylene-oxide storage and rail car loading were located to take advantage of the prevailing winds. A proprietary high integrity protective system monitored the production process. In addition to a normal surface water sewer system, the facility had a completely separate ethylene-oxide sewer system. The company had an on/line fugitive emission system composed of a gas chromatograph microprocessor and two gas chromatographs that monitored 41 sampling points. The facility had a comprehensive medical program that included a general health survey, known as the General Health Index, performed every 6 months for ethylene-oxide employees. Industrial hygiene sampling showed that exposures to ethylene-oxide were generally below 1 part per million (ppm). The author notes that OSHA recently reduced the ethylene-oxide standard from 50 to 1ppm. He concludes that this is one of the best facilities he has visited, especially since the facility was designed to limit ethylene-oxide exposures to 1ppm at a time when the OSHA standard was 50ppm.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Carcinogens Hazardous Substances Lung Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Neoplasms Occupational Health Respiratory System Safety Toxicology
• Keywords:
  Air-quality-monitoring Chemical-processing Chemical-synthesis Chromatographic-analysis Control-technology Equipment-design Field-Study Industrial-chemicals NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Survey Pesticides-and-agricultural-chemicals Region-6 Toxic-vapors

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• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHECTB10118b
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Studies ; Control Technology
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DPSE - Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-43
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00148163
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, ECTB 101-18b, 1985 Mar; :1-43
• CAS Registry Number:
  Ethylene oxide (CAS RN 75-21-8)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1985
• NORA Priority Area:
  Control-technology
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2869 - Industrial organic chemicals, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5a8b49f6275b414796213f94b4d29df10dd6f2faadaff3892c4dc4874859878806c7d83a963449684b8f52036e33d43a00dace13046a77fb801e7db8a2e23625
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/179729/cdc_179729_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.22 MB ]