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- 1. Introduction and Purpose
- 2. Production Information and Product Characteristics
- 3. Health Aspects
- 4. Environmental Aspects
- 5. Design and construction of transport and storage equipment
- 6. Transport, Loading and Storage Operations
- 6.1. Training
- 6.2. Operating Instructions and Regulations
- 6.3. Inspections
- 6.4. Loading Operations for Rail and Road Transport
- 6.5. Unloading Operations for Rail and Road Transport
- 6.6. Vapour Control
- 6.7. Previous Cargoes and Cleanliness
- 6.8. Blanketing
- 6.9 Road Specific Operations
- 6.10 Intermodal Transport
- 6.11 Ferries Selection
- 6.12 Rail Specific Operations
- 6.13 Operations Common to Barges and Dea
- 6.14 Barge Specific Operations
- 6.15 Sea Specific Operations
- 6.16 Tank Storage Operation
- 6.17 Customer Collection
- 7. Emergency procedures
- 8. Personal protection, first aid and medical treatment
- 9. Styrene: REACH Consortium
- Appendices
- Bibliography
6. Transport, Storage and Handling Operations
6.13. Barges and Sea Operations / Cargo separation for safety purposes
6.13.1. Reactive Products
Products having known reactivity with styrene should not be loaded in cargo tanks, which have a common bulkhead (also corner-to-corner), pump or transfer piping.6.13.2. Separate Systems
Tanks containing styrene shall have separate pumping and piping systems which should not pass through other cargo tanks containing incompatible cargoes and have separate vapour return lines.6.13.3. Temperature
Styrene should not be loaded into cargo tanks adjacent or corner-to-corner to a cargo having a temperature of 30°C (86°F) or higher. Heating styrene to above this temperature will reduce shelf life and increase the risk of polymerisation in the cargo tank.6.13.4. Heating coils
Heating coils in tanks carrying styrene shall be blinded off.6.13.5. Edible products
Edible products shall never be loaded with bulkhead to bulkhead contact with styrene and piping systems should be entirely separate.In addition, review US Coast Guard compatibility charts (Title 46, Code of Federal Regulations, part 150).
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