PPS material delivers economical yet reliable performance

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 81 KB
• Volume: 2004
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1350-4789
• DOI: 10.1016/s1350-4789(04)00405-2

✦ Synopsis

Poorly installed gasket causes ammonia leak

A toxic cloud of ammonia which leaked from McCain Foods' Wendouree factory in Australia was likely to be a one-off incident, according to investigators. The Victorian WorkCover Authority and Environmental Protection Agency discovered that a gasket in an ammonia pipe to the rear of the plant was poorly installed, according to a report in the Ballarat Courier in Victoria.

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