Question: Is it good practice to put an air-cooling evaporator into a defrost cycle during an ammonia leak in the evaporator coil? Answer: In order to answer this question, we need to have a basic understanding of the four types of defrost available: 1. Water defrost; 2. Hot gas defrost; 3. Electric defrost; 4. Air defrost. […]
An ammonia leak in outer space, a semi truck colliding with a train, and some pretty bad parenting all make the cut in the latest edition of the Ammonia Week in Review… International Space Station Has Ammonia Leak in Cooling System – Crew members aboard the International Space Station are awaiting word on how to deal with […]
Another busy week in the world of anhydrous ammonia. Take a closer look in the latest Ammonia Week in Review… Highway 10 Reopened After Ammonia Leak –Saskatchewan RCMP have reopened highway 10, three miles east of Balcarres. They say anhydrous ammonia, a potentially deadly gas was coming from a satellite tank owned by Blair’s Fertilizer […]
US EPA Region 10 just released the May – June edition of their CHEMICAL EMERGENCY PREVENTION & PLANNING NEWSLETTER and you might be interested to hear what they have to say about your Emergency Response Program. Below are highlights from the newsletter, or click here to view the entire newsletter. EPA recognizes that, in some cases […]
In the fresh fruit and vegetable industry in Central California, it is very common for facilities to use bunker-mounted air-cooling evaporators. A typical installation of a bunker-mounted evaporator can been seen in the schematic below: Performing a mechanical integrity inspection of a bunker-mounted evaporator requires many of the same inspection protocols that any air-cooled evaporator […]
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