TY - CONF A1 - Molnarne, Maria A1 - Wilrich, Cordula A1 - Holtappels, Kai T1 - Chemically unstable gases and gas mixtures - new categories in the GHS T2 - 14th Annual symposium, Mary Kay O´Connor process safety center - Beyond regulatory compliance: making safety second nature (Proceedings) N2 - In connection with the use of chemically unstable gases (especially acetylene and ethylene oxide) accidents keep on happening - amongst them also quite serious ones. These gases are known to be chemically unstable. A chemically unstable sas is a flammable gas that is able to react exolosivelv even in the absence of air or oxveen. The investigation of accidents showed that the Chemical instability of flammable gases played an important role in the severity of accidents. Therefore, this hazardous property was included in the global harmonizatiön of the Classification of Chemicals. The Classification of chemically unstable flammable gases and mixtures is an amendment to Chapter 2.2 “Flammable gases” of the UN Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), because most chemically unstable gases are flammable as well. The proposal to add them to the GHS originated from the experts of an informal working group of the UN Sub-Committee of Expert on the GHS (UNSCEGHS) headed by BAM, Germany. The UNSCEGHS has decided to include it in the Fourth Revised Edition of the GHS. The respective method for determining whether a gas is chemically unstable or not, is included in the UN Manual of Tests and Criteria. This paper presents some experimental investigations of these gases, the test methods, examples of new classifications and results from CHEMSAFE T2 - 14th Annual symposium, Mary Kay O´Connor process safety center - Beyond regulatory compliance: making safety second nature CY - College Station, TX, USA DA - 25.10.2011 KW - Chemically unstable gases KW - GHS KW - Chemisch instabile Gase PY - 2011 SP - 871 EP - 882 AN - OPUS4-24913 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -