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| Mosel Chem Factory Fotos |
| 2005-08-15 |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #7 BigEd, bug spray is nerve agent in a solution not strong enough to hurt most humans. There is some refining done but you could take a normal insecticide and make certain types of nerve agents. Not REAL easy but not extremely difficult, either. I won't go into details here, though. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-08-15 19:26 |
| #6 Thanks DB. I'm sure you're right. As I said, it's been a loooong time since I played with such toys. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-08-15 16:52 |
| #5 Yawn... Don't you know? Bug spray and aspirin... WMD? What's that? If this were to be a WMD plant, it would be like.... The earth spinning off its axis! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-08-15 16:41 |
| #4 tw, I believe you are correct. It looks more like a condenser to me but that is a form of heat exchanger. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-08-15 13:07 |
| #3 Not a large or sophisticated operation, to be sure, but trouble can be brewed in a bathtub as we learned last month. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2005-08-15 09:53 |
| #2 From the photos it looks like batch rather than continous production, which is about what we'd expect. That rectangular box thing looks like heat exchanger (if I recall the name correctly, it's been more than 15 years since I was involved briefly in product development, and never as an engineer)-- the mixture would be pumped in one end, heated while traveling through, then come out the other end for the next step of the process. The carelessness about safety is normal for that part of the world. Mr. Wife came back from his first business trip to Egypt in shock -- the factory workers walked around the plant carrying leaking bags of chemicals on their heads, no one wore shoes, let alone safety shoes, and a huge gaping hole in the mezzanine floor was covered by a piece of cardboard. I don't know if that is typical of non-First World manufacturing, or a manifestation of the Inshallah philosophy. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-08-15 09:04 |
| #1 Well, it ain't a meth lab. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-08-15 08:10 |