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Article: Keeping it safe.(environmentally safe ammonium nitrate plants)
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- Nitrogen & Methanol
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Besides the usual concerns of efficiency and environmental cleanliness, ammonium nitrate plant designers and operators have to contend with special safety considerations.
Millions of tons of ammonium nitrate are produced, stored, handled, transported and used perfectly safely every year. It is important to remember that, because although ammonium nitrate is a potentially dangerous material (it is, after all, the main constituent of a blasting agent widely used in mining and a favourite ingredient for terrorist bombs such as the one that demolished the Federal Building in Oklahoma City a few years ago and countless others over the years in Northern Ireland), ...