Posted on 10/28/2019 12:20:54 PM PDT by luvie
Egads, you are right. My recollection of high school chemistry is not just dated but is now in decay.
Typically the victim smells a whiff of it *gag* takes another sniff, the perceived smell is much less intense, by the third sniff, huh, the smell is gone, I wonder what that was? *croak*
Some of the Alberta tar sands crude has 4,000 ppm, and they actually ship it that way to refineries. It overwhelms the vapor recovery systems quite quickly.....
That's "Stinko" it's a mercaptan, an organic sulfur compound related to skunk scent.
In Europe where the use syngas, which is high in carbon monoxide, they add an odorizer that has an 'emetic' scent. You run away before you can be poisoned by the CO rather than puke your guts out on the spot...
What are you trying to pull? You live in Odessa and know how it happened. The man didn’t take the proper precautions. (The beard’s a big NoNo.)
I did not know that about the Alberta tar sand. I have a lot of friends that went there to consult. 1000 PPM is instant death. Hard to think that can ship it 4X the instant lethal amount. I hate when they give environmentalists something to stand on. Also glad environmentalists know nothing.
Followers of ‘the Curse of Oak Island’, this is what killed the Restalls.
Did this guy have have any protective gear on prior to going into a confined space?
Did the company have any lone worker monitoring for workers going into potentially dangerous areas?
There’s going to be lawsuits one way or the other I bet.
“If you can smell it you are already dead.”
ROTFLMAO!
. . Don’t find any house at that location but do find a oil pump
working there. They are sometimes called a horse or donkey pump.
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Pump Jacks have a”horse head”
I’m thinking it was a sewer lift station.
Pumpers have a detector not much bigger than a cellphone that clips on their belt and it screams like a banshee anywhere near H2S.
In high concentrations hydrogen sulfide will overwhelm the nasal system and you won't smell anything. Nasty stuff.
They also have gas masks but beards prevent a good seal.
“10 ppm
Maximum exposure 10 minutes. Kills smell in 3 to 15 minutes. Causes GAS EYE and throat injury. Reacts violently with dental mercury amalgam fillings.”
Where did you get this? It is not consistent with the MSDS.
“Hard to think that can ship it 4X the instant lethal amount.”
PPM is concentration, not amount.
“I’m thinking it was a sewer lift station.”
Company is not in sewage business.
Nasty stuff.
Hydrogen sulfide is often produced from the microbial breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen gas, such as in swamps and sewers;
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