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captain queeg

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1. I remember SO2

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Thu Jan 30, 2020, 10:16 PM

Jan 2020

Did a summer job as a grunt in a refinery shutdown. We were cleaning the hydro cracker (or maybe it was the cat cracker). At any rate we were in a confined space all day where they were supposed to be monitoring the air. They didn’t however. After a couple days someone finally showed up to test the air in the vessel. It had dangerous levels of SO2 and they chased us out, from then on we had to used supplied air. Guess that explained the headaches I’d had the first couple days

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Absorption of Sulfur Dioxide by Deep Eutectic Solvents [View all] NNadir Jan 2020 OP

I remember SO2 captain queeg Jan 2020 #1

That's a nasty story. NNadir Jan 2020 #6

I hope your effort at DU is worthwhile. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2020 #2

I am tired of and bored with discussions of Fukushima, which are intellectually and morally absurd. NNadir Jan 2020 #3

You bull doze with with so many facts. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2020 #4

I know, I know, there is something wrong with "Facts." NNadir Jan 2020 #5