Plant Safety Ch. 7

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The development of a fire includes four stages. Please match this statement to the stage. (increased combustion, smoke, no visible flame)

the smoldering stage

Hose reels are designed to take the hose to the fire. Most hose reels have an adjustable nozzle and approximately____ feet of ____-inch hose.

100 FT , 1/2 FT

A thermal expansion is the result of

2 or more chemical compounds combining and reacting violently

The primary reason the Bhopal, India, incident occurred was:

4 of the critical systems were shutdown

A denotation wave for air-hydrocarbon mixtures expand at a high velocity of _______ feet per second.

4000 to 8000

An exothermic reaction that burst the rupture disk, lifted the safety, and allowed a vapor cloud to drift out of the plant and kill 1,400 people immediately and injured thousands was:

BLEVE

The worst industrial accident in the world took place at

Bhopal

The Bhopal, India, incident is best described by the following statement:

Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident on the night of 2-3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is considered to be the world's worst industrial disaster. Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas. The highly toxic substance made its way into and around the small towns located near the plant.

Select the fire extinguisher you would use on a trash fire.

Class A; Water

Select the fire extinguisher you would use on a grease fire.

Class B; Carbon Dioxide

Select the fire extinguisher you would use on a small oil tank fire.

Class B; Carbon Dioxide

Select the fire extinguisher you would use on a computer fire.

Class C ; Halon

Select the fire extinguisher you would use on a breaker panel fire.

Class C; Halon

Select the fire extinguisher you would use on a compressor motor fire.

Class D; Dry

Which company was responsible for using unskilled, unqualified labor to perform a job at a plant?

Houston Philips

The Phillips and ARCO incidents directly led to the development of:

PSM

In contrast to a gas fire, a liquid fire's burning rate is dictated by how fast the flame can transfer heat back to the:

Substance

The primary reason the Texas City incident occurred was

Suspect that a carelessly discarded cigarette was the ignition source.

The worst industrial accident in the United States took place at:

Texas City

Which industrial incident killed 581 people?

Texas City

The Texas City incident is best described by the following statement:

carelessly discarded cigarette ignited a fire in a hold containing ammonium nitrate

The development of a fire includes four stages. Please match this statement to the stage. (flames become visible)

the flame stage

The development of a fire includes four stages. Please match this statement to the stage (excessive heat, flame, smoke, toxic gases)

the heat stage

The development of a fire includes four stages. Please match this statement to the stage. (no smoke or flame, little heat, combustion begins)

the incipient stage

The Phillips incident is best described by the following statement:

use of unskilled and unqualified contractors led to critical safety measures being bypassed causing gases to leak

solvent is best described as:

used to dissolve another material; includes aqueous and non-aqueous.

A BLEVE is a physical explosion involving:

a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion, involving the release and ignition of an expanding vapor"

Records indicate that the safest place for a process technician is:

at work

________ from the fire before the extinguisher is emptied.

back away

Liquid fires depend on a ___________ mixture above the product

gas and air mixture

Solid and liquid fires must burn in the _______ phase.

gas phase

The effects of absorbed heat include all of the following except:

increase in volume, temperature, change of state, chemical change and electrical transfer

Denotations are a special type of explosion that are extremely destructive because they

it travels at high velocity and produce high internal pressures.


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