@unreal.files She passed out in her sleep #boyfriend #girlfriend #fyp ♬ original sound - Unreal Files
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M, over on Blab passed along a slightly different video on this same story. The culprit (in M’s version) - was supposedly H2S. Knowing that I am an expert in stench, M forwarded the story on to me for fact checking.
Here in Alberta the oil patch makes most of us outhouse experts in H2S - hydrogen sulphide. It’s a nasty, but all too common component in oil and gas and it’s killed more than a few people in the industry. Pretty much everyone in the oil and gas sector has to take an accredited safety course in H2S just to get a job in the industry.
It’s been years for me but as I recall, H2S smells like a nasty-old-man farts in low concentrations. In lethal exposure incidents - it’ll knock your sense of smell right out and you’ll go unconscious before you know what’s going on. It is truly an odourless, colourless silent killer and every year it seems a couple people get killed by it like clockwork. So…theoretically it is possible to survive under the covers in a “Dutch Oven” scenario and not smell your doom.
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If there WERE concentrations that high the old lady would probly wake up dead after passing out! And H2S is not only nasty with humans. I still remember the specs on all my instruments and valving that were exposed to it. It all had to be NACE MRO17025 compliant. That meant exotic metals that could stand up to the corrosive sour gas…hastelloy was the metal used. Sour gas will eat regular steel. Or was it inconel? I can’t remember, there were a few expensive metals that could stand up to it. But that begs the question: if you can fart at high concentrations of H2S…what’s your sphincter made out of? I think a fella’d rot from the inside oot at concentrations like that! Unfortunately we’d need a sphincter expert like Pete or Chutes to weigh in on that.
For now we’ll mark this one as suspicious…but possibly plausible.
It's another holocaust!
ReplyDelete10-15ppm causes loss of smell, 40ppm can cause loss dizziness and confusion, 100ppm can kill some people.
ReplyDeleteMR0175 only really has exotics for lines above 20%. At the low end its carbon steel with steps to prevent cracking. At 20% we use 316ss. You must have been in valves, they often use exotics for the trim but thats mostly for wear resistance.
Its more likely other gases in the farts, co and co2 also have similar issues at low concentrations. Also could be O2 level dropped as well.
Exile1981
I worked on a dam on the Pecos river where the water released it into the immediate atmosphere. It would make anything in your pockets made of metal turn black. I was a crane operator so not exposed as bad as the other guys. I was the only one of the entire crew that never went to ER. Company I worked for didn't give a rat's ass but the pay was damned good.
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