Ammonia disposal

Liver disease due to alcohol abuse, chronic hepatitis, or hemochromatosis, leads to impairment of ammonia disposal by the urea cycle and is often the cause of this condition in adults. 

As a pantothenic acid analogue, hopantenate can affect lactate generation, glucose metabolism, and ammonia disposal, and there have been two fatal cases in elderly people who developed disturbances of consciousness with lactic acidosis, hypoglycemia, and hyperammonemia (903). 

Duct injection represents a third feed alternative. In one concept, sodium bicarbonate is injected into the flue gas duct at about 1S0°C in addition to hydrated lime injected into the convective section of the boiler (Helfntch et al., 1991). In another concept, recommended for small plants, sodium bicarbonate, without lime, is injected into the duct upstream of a cloth filter (Darmstaedter, 1990). A general problem with the use of sodium compounds is the release of NO2, which can cause a visible yellow plume at the stack. The production of NO2 tends to increase with temperature, but can be minimized by the injection of urea or ammonia. Disposal of the solid product, which contains water-soluble sodium salts, can also be a problem. 

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The ratio of reactants had to be controlled very closely to suppress these impurities. Recovery of the acrylamide product from the acid process was the most expensive and difficult part of the process. Large scale production depended on two different methods. If soHd crystalline monomer was desired, the acrylamide sulfate was neutralized with ammonia to yield ammonium sulfate. The acrylamide crystallized on cooling, leaving ammonium sulfate, which had to be disposed of in some way. The second method of purification involved ion exclusion (68), which utilized a sulfonic acid ion-exchange resin and produced a dilute solution of acrylamide in water. A dilute sulfuric acid waste stream was again produced, and, in either case, the waste stream represented a... 

Thermal degradation of isocyanates occurs on heating above 100—120°C. This reaction is exothermic, and a mnaway reaction can occur at temperatures >175° C. In view of the heat sensitivity of isocyanates, it is necessary to melt MDl with caution and to foUow suppHers recommendation. Disposal of empty containers, isocyanate waste materials, and decontamination of spilled isocyanates are best conducted using water or alcohols containing small amounts of ammonia or detergent. Eor example, a mixture of 50% ethanol, 2-propanol, or butanol 45% water, and 5% ammonia can be used to neutrali2e isocyanate waste and spills. Spills and leaks of isocyanates should be contained immediately, ie, by dyking with an absorbent material, such as saw dust. 

Spills and Disposal Procedures. If a spiU occurs outdoors, personnel should stay upwind of it. If the spiU is in a diked area it may be possible to recover much of the bromine, otherwise it should be absorbed with appropriate material. A water spray can be used to control bromine vapors and a mild ammonia atmosphere helps to neutralize bromine vapors. Small spills may be neutralized with lime water slurry or soda ash and flushed with large amounts of cold water. 

The plant disposes of two waste streams gaseous and aqueous. The gaseous emission results from the ammonia and the artunonium nitrate plants. It is fed to an incinerator prior to atmospheric disposal. In the incinerator, ammonia is converted into NOj,. Ehie to more stringent NO regulations, the conqmsition of ammonia in the feed to the incinerator has to be reduced from 0.57 wt% to 0.07 wt%. The lean streams presented in Table 9.5 may be employed to remove ammonia. The main aqueous waste of the process results from the nitric acid plant. Due to its acidic content of nitric acid, it is neutralized with an aqueous ammonia solution before biotreatment. 

Stripping of hazardous substances Mercury switches and other components containing particularly hazardous substances must be removed CFCs are recovered from the cooling circuit and PU foam with special equipment and appliances with varying degrees of automation ammonia is dissolved in water and separate disposal of waste oil (from compressors). 

Picric acid, in common with several other polynitrophenols, is an explosive material in its own right and is usually stored as a water-wet paste. Several dust explosions of dry material have been reported [1]. It forms salts with many metals, some of which (lead, mercury, copper or zinc) are rather sensitive to heat, friction or impact. The salts with ammonia and amines, and the molecular complexes with aromatic hydrocarbons, etc. are, in general, not so sensitive [2], Contact of picric acid with concrete floors may form the friction-sensitive calcium salt [3], Contact of molten picric acid with metallic zinc or lead forms the metal picrates which can detonate the acid. Picrates of lead, iron, zinc, nickel, copper, etc. should be considered dangerously sensitive. Dry picric acid has little effect on these metals at ambient temperature. Picric acid of sufficient purity is of the same order of stability as TNT, and is not considered unduly hazardous in regard to sensitivity [4], Details of handling and disposal procedures have been collected and summarised [5],... 

Ammonia may be produced and lost between deposition and collection of excreta in winter housing, during its storage and following land application. The treatment of excreta from winter-housed stock as a waste disposal problem rather than a fertilizer resource results in substantial loss of N as NH3. 

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