Hygienic assessment of the air in the working area of the chemical plants of butyl alcohols and methyl-tret-butyl ether

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There was made a hygienic assessment of the air environment of chemical production in Eastern Siberia for the production of commercial butyl alcohol of ISO — and normal structure and methyl-tret-butyl ether (MTBE). The company uses continuous processing cycles with a high degree of automation and mechanization of labor-intensive operations. A retrospective study of the air of the working area of these industries over the 13-year period found no exceedances in MAC of harmful substances (butyl alcohols, MTBE, and oil aldehyde, methanol, aliphatic hydrocarbons C1-C10, carbon monoxide, cobalt tetracarbonyl hydride), there was a noticeable downward trend over the observation period, which is associated with the introduction in the target industries of technical and sanitary-hygienic measures, optimization of working conditions. The studies carried out at the present time indicate a continuing effect on low-intensity chemical compounds operating in the said complex, which corresponds to the permissible level of the occupational risk.

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Natalia A. Taranenko

East-Siberian Institute of Medical and Ecological Research

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Email: labchem99@gmail.com

MD, Ph.D., researcher of the Laboratory of analytical ecotoxicology and biomonitoring of the “East-Siberian Institute of Medico-Ecological research, Angarsk, 665827, Russian Federation.

e-mail: labchem99@gmail.com 

Russian Federation

N. M. Meshchakova

East-Siberian Institute of Medical and Ecological Research

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
Russian Federation

O. M. Zhurba

East-Siberian Institute of Medical and Ecological Research

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
Russian Federation

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