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Posted By DIANE BAINBRIDGE
On a recent visit to a power station I came across a renewable fuel known as Olive Cake; I have requested a data sheet for this product through the contractors, it would appear the client is a little shy about handing over this document. I have concerns due to a few complaints (nose bleeds with one chap) I have heard. I have looked at various sites not getting far. I would appreciate any help or suggestions.
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Posted By Miss B
Thank you, but still no data sheet.
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Posted By Miss B
Thank you. I am looking to acquire a technical data sheet on this product if anyone can help?
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Posted By snt
VOCs may cause a health & safety hazard in situations where biomass materials are enclosed in a confined space with poor ventilation. It is known that certain biomass, particularly olives, can produce decomposition products including carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulphide, methane, carbon dioxide and volatile fatty acids (VFAs), namely acetic acid, propanoic acid and n-butyric acid. One power station employee in Holland is known to have been taken to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after unloading a consignment of olive cake in a confined space.
Cited in http://www.dti.gov.uk/en...ct/pub/pdfs/bpb009c.pdf.
The first place to start is to get the active ingredients use in making olive cake. Technical data sheet can not be given easily, it all depends on your responsibility within the organisation and how the organisation perceived how you treat information such as being an alarmist. Remember, when it comes to chemical and food safety, you need expert knowledge to assess risk in this area. Even with technical data sheet, how you capable of extracting information from it.
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
Diane
As a natural biological product I think a technical data sheet is not going to be available.
Olive cake is after all the residue from the olive oil industry. The Hexane process is the final extraction process sometimes carried out after pressing to produce the very low grade olive oils.
Bob
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Posted By Miss B
Thank you to everyone for their input on this. Even though I have been in the health and safety proffession for six years, I am new to the forums on here. I shall endevour to visit frequently as the work I get involved is varied and poses many challenges such as the one above. I have located a scratchy data sheet for the wood pulp biomass. Wood dust is a carcinogen! Should anyone come up with anything different to the suggestions already posted I would be grateful. I am under the impression that the residue ash K2O amongs other nasties. I am trying to assess the hazards posed from the raw form as it arrives on site and then through the various processes involved in the power stations.
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Posted By Miss B
Apart from it has been recognised by the client, that to add water to the residual ash is not good practise due to the reactions, it's proving difficult to get data on this product.
Does anyone know how much attention the HSE pays to this particular industry? They are keen enough with construction and agriculture!
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Posted By Smurfer
My 2 year-old nephew threw-up after eating olive bread... should olives be banned?
;-) Sorry.
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