German Federal Institute for Materials

The German Federal Institute for Material Testing (BAM) carried out full-scale fire tests on commercial liquefied-propane storage tanks. Tank volume was 4.85 m in each test (Schoen et al. 1989 Droste and Schoen 1988 Schulz-Forberg et al. 1984). Unprotected and protected tanks filled with propane (50% filled) were exposed to a fire. In some tests, the propane was preheated. 

The German Federal Institute for Materials Research Testing has concluded that antimony oxide in plasticised PVC may be replaced to a certain degree by zinc sulfide. They studied 5% total loadings of the additives either alone or in mixtures. Synergism was observed for the mixtures. ZnS alone appeared to have no effect, yet a 50/50 mixture gave an equivalent flame retardancy as antimony oxide alone. 

List from the Bundesanstalt fiir Materialforschung und -priifung (BAM, German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing) Requirements for tanks used to transport hazardous goods [67]... 

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In 1994, some of Dan Brewer s ideas about the behavior of liquid hydrogen were confirmed by an experiment in which copious amounts of LH2 were intentionally spilled and ignited in a row of abandoned military barracks near Berlin that had once housed Soviet troops. Scientists from Germany s BAM (Bundesanstalt fur Materialforschung und -priifung—that is, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing), from the German... 

Table 2. Toxicity classes defined by the German Federal Institute of Hydrology for sediment assessment and ecotoxicological management categories for dredged material relocation. Ecotoxicological characterization is based on porewater and elutriate bioassay responses. For shade codes, refer to Table 3.

Table 3. Management categories for dredged-material relocation used by the German Federal Institute of Hydrology. Chemical and ecotoxicological criteria are those of HABAB-WSV (2000) and HABAK-WSV (1999).

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