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EHS Guidelines: Chemicals

This collection of Industry-Sector Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Guidelines includes sub-sectors in chemicals processing and manufacturing, offering guidance on managing related environmental, occupational, and community health and safety risks. Technical guidance is available for the processing and production of essential chemicals, energy products, fertilizers, polymers, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnological compounds.

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The EHS Guidelines for Coal Processing cover the processing of coal into gaseous or liquid chemicals, including fuels. They apply to the production of Synthetic Gas (SynGas) through various gasification processes and its subsequent conversion into liquid hydrocarbons, methanol, or other oxygenated liquid products, as well as to the direct hydrogenation of coal into liquid hydrocarbons.

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The EHS Guidelines for Large Volume Inorganic Compounds (LVIC) Manufacturing and Coal Tar Distillation include information relevant to chemical manufacturing projects and facilities, and covers the production of LVIC, including ammonia, acids (nitric, hydrochloric, sulfuric, hydrofluoric, phosphoric acid), chlor-alkali (e.g. chlorine, caustic soda, soda ash, etc.), carbon black, and coal tar distillation (naphthalene, phenanthrene, anthracene).

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The EHS Guidelines for Large Volume Petroleum-based Organic Chemical (LVOC) Manufacturing include information relevant to LVOC projects and facilities. They cover the production of lower olefins, oxygenated compounds, nitrogenated compounds, halogenated compounds.

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The EHS Guidelines for Natural Gas Processing cover production in gas to liquids (GTL) facilities including production of methanol, as well as common intermediate production of synthetic gas (SynGas), a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

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The EHS Guidelines for Nitrogenous Fertilizer Production include information relevant to facilities that produce ammonia-based nitrogenous fertilizers.

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The EHS Guidelines for Oleochemicals Manufacturing include information relevant to manufacturing facilities that produce fatty acids, glycerin, and biodiesel using fats and oils from vegetable or animal sources.

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The EHS Guidelines for Pesticides Formulation, Manufacturing and Packaging address the synthesis, optimization of the active ingredients, process development (manufacturing), and the formulation and packaging of pesticides from these active ingredients. The main pesticide groups include insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, acaricides (or miticides), nematicides and rodenticides.

The EHS Guidelines for Petroleum Refining cover processing operations from raw crude oil to finished products, for example, refinery fuel gas, liquefied petroleum gas, motor gasoline, kerosene, diesel oil, heating oil, fuel oil, bitumen, asphalt, lubricant oils, waxes, sulfur, pet-coke, and intermediate products for the petrochemical industry.

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The EHS Guidelines for Petroleum-based Polymers Manufacturing are applicable where monomers are polymerized and finished into pellets or granules for subsequent industrial use.

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The EHS Guidelines for Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology Manufacturing include information relevant to pharmaceuticals and biotechnology manufacturing facilities. They cover the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients and secondary processing, including intermediates, formulation, blending, and packaging, and related activities research, including biotechnology research and production.

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The EHS Guidelines for Phosphate Fertilizer Manufacturing include information relevant to facilities that produce phosphoric acid, single superphosphate (SSP), triple superphosphate (TSP), and compound fertilizers (NPK).