Posted on 08/31/2017 5:41:17 AM PDT by texas booster
Apparently, they had some liquid nitrogen there as back-up, but there was a problem with that as well.
That makes more sense. The trailers were a last resort and not just leaving a trailers full of product behind.
Why do they always say to turn off air conditioners? I thought they were designed as a closed loop system. The air is drawn from inside the house then cooled inside the house and distributed inside the house. Rinse and repeat. No outside air is introduced?
Makes you wonder, if they are that important, why weren't the generators installed on a higher floor?
“why weren’t the generators installed on a higher floor? “
Why would any business incur extra expense for 1000 year events, like Harvey flooding? Shit happens. Fix it later.
No higher floor; it's all ground level.
What?
Google Earth GPS Coordinates:
Latitude: 29.948063°N
Longitude: -95.019630°W
The good news is that there is 6 feet of flood water to put the fires out......
Are you saying they cant build a 2 story building there?
No, I'm saying there is not a 2-story building there now for storage of the emergency generators.
A list of chemicals at the plant(via zerohedge):
The company also published a list of the toxic chemicals stored at the doomed facility on its web site, reposted below.
2-ETHYLHEXANOYL CHLORIDE DISTILLED
ACETIC ACID 84%
ACETONE
AROMATIC 100
BENZOYL CHLORIDE
CAUSTIC POTASH 45%
CAUSTIC SODA 50%
CUMENE HYDROPEROXIDE
CUMENE HYDROPEROXIDE
DIMETHYL HEXADIENE
DIMETHYL HEXANEDIOL DH-S
EPSOM SALTS
HEXANE
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE 70%
ISOAMYLENE
ISOAMYLENE
ISOBUTYLENE ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL
MINERAL OIL, WHITE
MINERAL SPIRITS ODORLESS
MONOSODIUM PHOSPHATE
NEODECANOYL CHLORIDE >=98.0% UNDISTILLED
PIVALOYL CHLORIDE 95-100%
PROPYLENE GLYCOL
SODIUM BICARBONATE
SODIUM CARBONATE ANHYDROUS LIGHT
SODIUM SULFATE ANHYDROUS
SODIUM SULFITE ANHYDROUS
SULFUR DIOXIDE
SULFURIC ACID 93% REAGENT ACS
T-BUTYL HYDROPEROXIDE 70%
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