General Safety

1
General Safety
2
Personal protective wear

• Safety Classes
• Protective Clothing
• Gloves

3
Source of Portable and drinkable water

• Drinking Fountains
• Rest Rooms
• Eye Wash Stations
• Safety Showers
• Drench Hoses

4
Fire Safety Equipment

• Class A Ordinary combustible solids (paper,
  wood, rubber, textiles, etc.)
• Class B Flammable liquids, gases, and greases
• Class C Fires involving energized electrical
  equipment
• Class D Fires involving combustible metals (Li,
  Na, K, Zn, Al, Mg, etc

5
Health Hazard

• Skin
• Eye
• Inhalation
• Ingestion
• Injection

6
OPERATIONAL SAFETY
7
Cooling Water

• Condense Vapor
• Reduces pressure build up
• Hazardous Organic Vapors
• Explosion
• Inhalation hazard

8
Distillate Receiver

• Watch Fluid Level
• Overflow will effect initial component ratios
• Use the REFLUX pump to maintain fluid level

9
Reboiler

• Monitor fluid level
• Flooding
• Data Acquisition
• Not enough can cause explosion
• Change flow rates
• Bottoms
• Reflux rate

10
Feed Tank

• Always have some feed
• Can cause damage to the reboiler
• Manual stirring
• Metallic rod
• Sparks
• Spills

11
Past Safety Incidents

• Chemical Spills
• Due to negligence of correct procedure
• Fully understand and be able to carry out the
  procedure