Possibly unsafe
May. 20th, 2010 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beige_alert"Venting any significant amount of natural gas into a workplace is an open invitation to disaster," said Chemical Safety Board Chairman John Bresland.
You might imagine that the Chemical Safety Board has some serious excess of spare time if they are warning us of this hazard. But no! This is in response to the Kleen Energy explosion in February:
More details here.
You might imagine that the Chemical Safety Board has some serious excess of spare time if they are warning us of this hazard. But no! This is in response to the Kleen Energy explosion in February:
The practice of using flammable natural gas to clean power plant piping, which led to the fatal explosion at Connecticut-based Kleen Energy on February 7, has been commonly used across the gas-fired power generating industry, CSB investigators said today.
The explosion, which killed six workers and injured at least 50 others, occurred during a "gas blow" – a planned effort to clean out new fuel-gas piping leading to combustion turbines by directing high-pressure natural gas through the pipes and out of vents located near ground level, adjacent to the power generation building. The gas accumulated above the lower explosive limit and ignited, causing massive damage to the new billion-dollar facility, which was nearing completion.
More details here.
