High Hazard Cylinders

Clean Harbors has the experience, personnel and resources to handle high hazard cylinders.  The term “high hazard” is used to refer to those cylinders that pose an added hazard besides chemical exposure and pressure, which are normally associated with cylinder packages.  These cylinders pose an unwanted risk to those possessing them and require a team with the knowledge and experience to manage them safety and effectively.

Whether on a customer’s site or at our facility, the management of “high hazard” cylinders mandate specialized equipment and training beyond normal industry standards.

• Tetrafluorohydrazine - Clean Harbors cylinder specialists have extensive experience managing tetrafluorohydrazine and have developed state-of-the-art transportation vessels and disposal techniques for off-site disposal.  Although we have the equipment and training to manage this material on-site, we prefer to remove the liability from your facility and manage it at our permitted facility under controlled conditions. Clean Harbors has designed and fabricated a Tetrafluorohydrazine blast sleeve for transportation purposes.

• Hydrogen Cyanide, Anhydrous - Clean Harbors has extensive experience handling Hydrogen Cyanide, Anhydrous cylinders up to 35-pound net product.  Although detonation has been the preferred method of disposal of this material in the past, it is not a recommended practice by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA/625/R-93/013).  For this reason, Clean Harbors has developed an innovative and safe approach for movement, transportation, and chemical oxidation of this very reactive and toxic compound.

• Pentaborane – Clean Harbors has extensive experience handling this highly energetic and extremely toxic compound.  Lethal concentrations of Pentaborane are similar to chemical warfare agents. With mustard gas-like toxicity, Pentaborane handling and destruction must be performed with Level A safety equipment.