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1
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General Characteristics of containers include?

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  • Size

- Whether used for Transportation or Fixed Storage.

2
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Special Characteristics of containers include? (4)

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  • What it’s constructed of
  • Pressurized or not
  • configuration or intended openings
  • Means to relieve internal pressure
3
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Some bulk highway cargo tanks including those used to carry gasoline or diesel may carry as much as?

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9,000 gallons

4
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Bulk High pressure containers intended to transport LPG or Anhydrous Ammonia may contain more than?

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11,000 gallons

5
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Non-pressurized bulk rail cars can have quantities ranging from

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10,000 to 26,000 gallons

6
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Pressurized rail tank cars containing LPG can have loads in excess of?

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30,000 gallons

7
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Chlorine tank cars could contain as much as?

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90 tons

8
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Non-bulk containers that include drums, barrels, crates, and cylinders could range in capacity from

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several ounces to more than 100 gallons

9
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Bulk fixed storage tanks can contain materials in quantities that range from?

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Several hundred to Several thousand gallons

10
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It’s important for FR’s to remember that not all fixed facilities are required by Federal Law to report all hazardous materials stored or used on-site. What may be the only way to learn about these items? 2

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Preplanning and an MSDS before an incident

11
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Many highway cargo tanks that transport hazmats include what? Spaced?

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External ring stiffeners. Several feet apart.

12
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Most highway cargo tanks used to transport petroleum products are constructed of what? How thick?

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Aluminum Alloy. .25” thick

13
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Metal containers used to store corrosive liquids are often lined internally with?

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Rubber

14
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Insulated highway cargo tanks will often have what shape when viewed from the rear?

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Horseshoe

15
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Bulk transportation containers for gasoline are designed to withstand very low pressures, sometimes as low as?

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3psi

16
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Low pressure containers used to transport some liquid hazardous materials, such as flammable inks and solvents, corrosives, oxidizers, and poisons, may have operating pressures that range from?

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25-75psi

17
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High pressure bulk transport containers used for products such as LPG may contain pressures as high as?

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300psi

18
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Two primary characteristics for most compressed gas cylinders that first responders should always be aware of?

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PRD and Rounded tank ends.

19
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Damage is especially troublesome on high pressure metal containers when it occurs where?

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At the Weld lines

20
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What is important to first responders in reference to container openings?

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How many, and is there a means to protect them from damage.

21
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Rollover damage devices intended to protect the openings during a rollover accident usually include stiff metal walls and are designed to support?

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2x weight of loaded cargo tank

22
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Many bulk transport containers will also include emergency that allow valves to be closed both?

A

Manually or through heat activation

23
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PRD’s are prohibited on compressed gas cylinders that contain certain types of hazmats that are classified as?

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Poisonous

24
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Some gases may be liquified with the application of only a few hundred pounds of pressure, these materials are often referred to as

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Liquified gases

25
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Vapor space can be as high as _______ of the capacity of the container

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15-20%

26
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The presence of a container with an overfill protection device (OPD) is usually indicated by a?

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Triobular hand wheel.

27
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2 examples of Non-liquified gases are?

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Oxygen and Nitrogen

28
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A process known as cryogenics can reduce the temperature of a material to lower than?

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-150 degrees F.

29
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Liquid Nitrogen has an expansion ratio of?

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694 to 1

30
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Liquid Oxygen expansion ratio

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857 to 1

31
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Containers that carry liquified petroleum gas stored at high pressures are usually made of? what thickness?

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Steel. 1/2”