Environmental impact of ammonia refrigerating plants. Guide to studying technological hazards.

Installations frigorifiques fonctionnant à l'ammoniac: leur impact sur l'environnement. Guide d'étude des risques technologiques.

Author(s) : AFF

Type of monograph: Guide/Handbook

Summary

French regulations on registered establishments (law of July 19, 1976) have applied to ammonia refrigerating plants since July 7, 1992. This guide includes an exhaustive compilation of the regulations and guidelines on design, manufacturing, installation, operation and maintenance of ammonia installations, along with criteria for personnel training in these areas. Table of contents: description of a refrigerating plant, ammonia as a refrigerant, environmental regulations on registered installations, principles for studying the danger presented by such installations, presentation and description of the establishment and the installation, refrigerating-plant design, locating and laying out buildings, operation and maintenance, risk analysis, important safety equipment and guidelines, accident scenarios and analysis of consequences, intervention and rescue.

Details

  • Original title: Installations frigorifiques fonctionnant à l'ammoniac: leur impact sur l'environnement. Guide d'étude des risques technologiques.
  • Record ID : 1997-1259
  • Languages: French
  • Subject: Regulation, Environment
  • Publication: AFF (Association Française du Froid) - France/France
  • Publication date: 1996/07
  • Source: Source: 126 p. (16.7 x 23.5); fig.; tabl.; FRF 520.00.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.