SAFETY AND POLLUTION
Refrigerant safety card
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SUPPLIER COMPANY AND PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION
Card No
FRIG 8
Product
R-410A
Supplier company identification
RIVOIRA SpA
2 COMPOSITION / INFORMATIONS ON INGREDIENTS
Substance / Prepared
Prepared
Components / Impurities
Contains the following components :
Difluoromethane (R32)
50 % in weight
Pentafluoroethane (R125)
50 % in weight
ECC No
Not applicable for mixtures
Trade name
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3 IDENTIFICATION OF HAZARDS
Identifications of hazards
Liquified gas.
The vapours are heavier than air and can cause soffocation, reducing the oxygen available for
breathing.
Rapid evaporation of the fluid can cause freezing.
Can cause cardiac arhytmia.
4 FIRST AID MEASURES
Inhalation
Do not administer anything to fainted persons.
Take the person outdorr.
Use oxygen or artificial breathing if necessary.
Do not administer adrenaline or similar substances.
Contact with eyes
Rinse accurately with plenty of water for at least 15 minutes and see a doctor.
Contact with skin
Wash immediately with plenty of water. Take off immediately all the contaminated clothes.
Ingestion
Unlike way of contamination.
5 FIRE PREVENTION MEASURES
Specific hazards
Pressure increase.
Dangerous fumes
Halogen acids, traces of carbonyl halides.
Fire extinguishing means usable
All the known fire extinguishing means can be used.
Specific methods
Cool down the containers/tanks with water sprays.
Special protection equipments
Use the self-contained breathing apparatus in confined spaces.
6 MEASURES AGAINST ACCIDENTAL SPILLING OF THE PRODUCT
Personal protection
Evacuate personnel to ssafe areas. Provide for adequate ventilation. Use personal protection
equipments.
Protections for the environment
It evaporates.
Product removal methods
It evaporates.
7 HANDLING AND STORAGE
Handling and storage
Ensure an adequate air change and/or extraction in the workplaces. Use only well ventilated
rooms. Do not breathe vapours or aerosols. Carefully close the containers and keep them in a
cool, dry and well ventilated place. Keep in teh original containers.
Incompatible products
Explosives, flammable materials, organic peroxides.
General considerations
Accessing the unit
The access to the unit must be granted exclusively to qualified personnel trained to operate on this type of units and provided
with the necessary protection equipment. Moreover such personnel, to operate, must be authorized by the owner of the unit and
recognized by the Manufacturer.
Residual risks
The unit are designed and built in such a way to minimize risks for people and for the place where the unit is installed. The resi-
dual risks, impossible to eliminate during the design process, are reported in the following table along with the indications neces-
sary for their neutralization.
Considered part
Residual risk
Mode
Precautions
Compressor
Burns
Contact
Use protective gloves
Refrigerant
circuit pipes
Burns
Contact
Use protective gloves
Cold burns
Contact or
refrigerant outflow
Use protective gloves
Electrical circuit
Electrocutions
Burns
Contact with
live parts
Verify the unit earth connection
Disconnect the power supply line before carrying out
any operation inside the unit
Pollution
The unit contains refrigerant gas and lubricating oil. During discarding such fluids must be recovered and eliminated according
to the regulations in force in the country where the unit is installed.
The unit must not be abandoned during discarding.
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