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Cryogenic safety requirements.

Author(s) : JELINEK J.

Summary

The author reviews health hazards: cold burns, lung damage, hypothermia, toxicity, asphyxia (anoxia, oxygen deficiency). He reviews problems with atmospheric gases (nitrogen, oxygen, argon), flammable gases LNG (methane, ethane, ethylene, propane, butane), hydrogen, rare and relatively small scale used gases as helium 4, neon, krypton, xenon, and miscellaneous changes in properties of materials used in cryosystems.

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Details

  • Original title: Cryogenic safety requirements.
  • Record ID : 1999-2693
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Cryogenics '98. Proceedings of the Fifth Cryogenics Conference.
  • Publication date: 1998/05/12
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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