[pic] TERM PAPER ON BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY : IS THE GOVERNMENT SLEEPING Submitted to :- Submitted by :- Lect.Vishwas chakranarayan Harpreet singh Roll no. A18 Section :- S1001 INDEX 1.Preface 2.Acknowledgement 3.Contents 4.Introduction
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Union Carbide Corporation vs. Union of India (AIR 1992 SC 248) [Bhopal Gas Tragedy] -: SUBJECT :- CONTRACT LAW- 1 -: SUBMITTED BY:- Akshat Thakkar Akshat VIN Janak Vardey Jaimil Doshi B.B.A-LL.B – BATCH 2014-19 -: MODULE LEADER :- Mrs. SHILPI SHARMA SUBMITTED TO AURO UNIVERSITY OF HOSPITALITY & MANAGEMENT SURAT‚ GUJARAT APRIL 16‚ 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER
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BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY By: Jessica Turakhia Roll No: 7 The Bhopal Gas Tragedy is considered the world’s worst‚ industrial catastrophe‚ and 28 years on‚ the nightmare still continues for its victims and survivors. 28 years on‚ they are still asking the same question they asked then – Will
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in the Bhopal pesticide plant. “It’s not a deadly gas‚ just irritating‚ a sort of tear gas.” - Dr Loya‚ Union Carbide’s official doctor in Bhopal‚ commenting on Methyl Isocyanate‚ after the tragedy. 6 december 2010 Bhopal Gas Tragedy: A case study (Part-I) Introduction 2-3rd December 1984‚ was black night for the people of Bhopal City‚ who lived around the Union Carbide India Ltd. (UCIL). If they try to forget that black night‚ they can not do it. The Bhopal Gas Tragedy‚ involving
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BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY At 11.00 PM on December 2 1984‚ while most of the one million residents of Bhopal slept‚ an operator at the plant noticed a small leak of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and increasing pressure inside a storage tank. The vent-gas scrubber‚ a safety device designer to neutralize toxic discharge from the MIC system‚ had been turned off three weeks prior . Apparently a faulty valve had allowed one ton of water for cleaning internal pipes to mix with forty tons of MIC. A 30 ton refrigeration
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Overview The Bhopal disaster‚ also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy‚ was a gas leak incident in India‚ considered the world’s worst industrial disaster.It occurred on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal‚ Madhya Pradesh. Over 500‚000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals. The toxic substance made its way in and around the shantytowns located near the plant.Estimates vary on the death toll. The official
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Bhopal Gas Tragedy Product - Brand name Sevin (Union Carbide) - Third most used insecticide in US - Not fatal to people Carbaryl - Does not cause cancer Chemistry TLV = 0.02 ppm Methyl isocyanate Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) Clear‚ colourless‚ b.p. 39oC‚ odour threshold 2.1 ppm Effects of 0.4 ppm - Coughing - Chest pain - Breathing pain (dyspnea) - Asthma - Eye irritation - Nose‚ throat‚ skin damage Effects of 21 ppm - Lung oedema - Emphysema (damage of lung tissue) - hemorrhaging - bronchial
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HEALTH THE BHOPAL DISASTER Ashay Chitre‚ a film maker living in Bhopal’s prestigious Bharat Bhawan‚ built by the state government to attract artists to this central Indian city‚ heard a commotion outside his window early in the morning at about 3 a m. It was a chill December and all the windows of Chitre’s house were closed. As Chitre and his wife Rohini‚ seven months pregnant‚ opened the window‚ they got a whiff of gas. They immediately felt breathless and their eyes and noses began to
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Bhopal as a Case Study - Union Carbide Corp. INVESTIGATION OF LARGE-MAGNITUDE INCIDENTS: BHOPAL AS A CASE STUDY Ashok S. Kalelkar Arthur D. Little‚ Inc. Cambridge‚ Massachusetts‚ USA Presented At The Institution of Chemical Engineers Conference On Preventing Major Chemical Accidents London‚ England May 1988 ABSTRACT The investigation of large-magnitude incidents is fraught with difficulties and the process of establishing the primary cause of an incident often requires an understanding
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ASSESMENT BHOPAL DISASTER CASE STUDY BHOPAL DISASTER CASE STUDY Table of contents 1-List of figures 2 2-Difficulty of this case study 3 3-Introduction 5 4-The prevent condition 7 5-What is Methyl Isocyanate 9 6-Effects of exposing to the gas 10 6.1 –Side effects of inhaling Methyl Isocyanate 10 6.2-Sociactal effects
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