1. The Goal of this Guideline
This document is a mentor to notify a list of suggestions on the efficient safety attitude of conveying and shipping organic peroxides for road, air and sea shipment.
The current carrying regulations allow the standard structure for the legal essential of secure transportation. The particulars though, concerning high-tech material, policies for useful arguments related inital loading, truck and/or container arrangement, united intallisation, guidance manuals, hand- over methods, necessity methods, etc., are not totally determined in the carrying regulations, but are urgent and consequently recommend for secure handling, transport and process.
Akpa Organic Peoxide has OHSAS 18001 and ISO 9001 certificates. We have produced products according to mentioned quality standards.
The substance of this guideline aids secure approaching and carrying operations of organic peroxides in way and sea transport. The specified policies and materials, augementing to the legal fundamentals, performs the typical methods of the mentors of this model.
In transport functions of organic peroxides on land or in the sea, the general transport regulations are determined by ADR (land) and IMDG Code (sea). In the transport of dangerous goods, the substances are divided into different categories according to the hazard classes.
Organic peroxides are listed in class 5.2 and the transportation symbol is as follows.
Assignment of the UN number according to organic peroxide types:
2. The Importance of Temperature
All organic peroxides are thermally unstable and may tend to deteriorate more or less violently compared to the temperature of the material.
Some organic peroxides are so unstable that even the ambient temperature can be affected by its rapid deterioration, and that’s why requires temperature control and cooling in storage and transport.
The self-accelerating decomposition temperature (SADT) is the lowest temperature at which an organic peroxide in a typical vessel or shipping package will undergo a self-accelerating decomposition within one week.
If a product is access to be transported in IBCs or tanks, additional verification is necessary to ensure that there is sufficient urgent pressure reduction and / or ventilation.
3. Precautions to be Retrieved for Preparation, Loading, Unloading and Stacking of Trucks and Containers
A number of precautions should be taken to safely prepare, load, store and dispose of packages, trucks and containers. For Organic Peroxides, the key elements described below are very important.
4. Stacking Plans
If the various organic peroxides for temperature controlled Organic Peroxides are united in a refrigerated container, the convenient storage order must be examined. Stack the different organic peroxides in the same container and store at the lowest control temperature (Tc) closest to the container doors.
According to this situation, stacking plans should be ready.
Stacking of organic peroxide-containing containers in marine transport should be made at the top of the organic peroxide containers. Stacking must also be done to provide easy access to refrigeration units, gates and temperature controls.
5. Special Materials Required for Transportation Non-Temperature Controlled Transport
For non-temperature controlled organic peroxides, no special shipping materials is required, but shipping arrangements, such as closed trucks or dry box containers.
Moreover to this, for non-temperature controlled products that must be observed for Tmin due to security causes, temperature controlled should be used (for example the product should be stabiled on top of crystallization temperature) and convenient handling materials should be chosen.
Land Shippings
Temperature Controlled products are shipped in refrigerated trucks, refrigerated containers or tanks, which are minimum temperature protected and have a individual cooling unit minimum. The refrigeration unit (s) should be able to operate the truck by oneself.
No temperature protection (“coolant with consumables”, eg dry ice) is used with the cooling fluid system, always a mechanical cooling unit is chosen. The trucks must have an audible and visual alarm that detects and demonstrates that the alarm temperature has been surpassed.
The heat of the cooling carriage should be always be understandable in the transport cabine. The purpose of mechanical or digital heat recorders to follow the carrying temperature is a common exercise.
Backup pieces for cooling should be placed at the wayside assistance laborers or vehicle. Also, shipping companies should have schedules of assistance laborers for the cooling system throughout the shipping direction.
Marine Shipping Temperature Controlled Organic Peroxides are stored in refrigerated containers or refrigerated tank containers for marine shipping. Related containers are equipped with a double (backuped) cooling system or, in special conditions, a individual system (just once permitted regarding the iMDG code).
Umur Kurtar
Logistic Coordinator
Akpa Kimya
