Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 360
are brief descriptions of a few recent accidents involvingvessels and piping in refrigerating systems in which ammonia was usedas the refrigerant. Refrigerating Systems An ammonia receiver explosion last March in an Iowa cold stor-age plant resulted in the death of three men and injury to two… … Fic/urc I--Five men wcrc uijurcd (three of tliein fatally) by the rup-ture of this ammonia receiver along a zveldcd seam. Orerf^ressurefrom expansion of the ammonia when an acetylene torch was used tocut a connected pipe was the probable cause of the faUure. 86 THE LOCOMOTIVE J^ to have been pumped…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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