2017 Video of the Week #6 (Ammonia Burning!)

This week’s video shows what appears to be an attempted  “hot tap” procedure on an anhydrous ammonia piping.  Watch closely as the escaping ammonia gas (VD<1) gets trapped under the roof and ignites from the welding sparks.  The other concern is that if NH3 was present in a flammable concentration, the workers should have been in a higher level of respiratory protection.

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