Three environmental groups are suing the EPA, asking a judge to order the agency to reassess its regulations on the chemical.

Major players in the hydrofluoric acid market are Daikin Industries Ltd., Dongyue Group Co. Limited., China National Chemicals Import & Export Corporation, Yingpeng Chemical Co. Ltd., Honeywell ...

Although chemists consider hydrofluoric acid (HF) to be a “weak” acid, its potential to produce serious health effects greatly exceeds that of “strong” acids commonly used in the laboratory. HF shares ...

There are at least three producers of solid acid catalyst, and they say it is much safer than either HF or sulfuric acid and less likely to corrode refinery equipment. One producer, a consortium ...

HF is insidiously dangerous, since it doesn’t cause skin burns that you can feel as other acids do. Instead, it seeps through tissue, eats into bones and turns the calcium into calcium fluoride.

While aqueous solutions of hydrogen fluoride are certainly powerfully corrosive (and I have the scars to prove it) by definition it is a weak acid. The pKa of HF is 3.14, strong acids have pKa ...

Major players in the hydrofluoric acid market are Daikin Industries Ltd. , Dongyue Group Co. Limited. , China National Chemicals Import & Export Corporation, Yingpeng Chemical Co. Ltd. , Honeywell ...

When the Torrance refinery exploded in February 2015, showering residential neighborhoods with industrial ash, the event ignited a three-year public debate over hydrofluoric acid that continues to ...

In Foxboro Product Brand Session PB-EF104, OpsManage'10 participants had a chance to see how the new ACA.HF Advanced Alkylation measurement provides value as well as a safer work environment. A ...

Hydrofluoric acid (HF) leaked from an alkylation unit at BP Plc's 406,570-barrels-per-day refinery in Texas City, Texas on Tuesday morning, triggering alarms in the plant and warnings to area ...

The overflow crowd discussed a possible ban on the use of hydrofluoric acid at the Torrance Refinery. ... said the plant has used HF in the refining process for roughly 20 years.