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Old 10-05-2007 | 08:07 AM
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Default RE: Synthetic gas turbine oil hazards.

We are made up of organophosphates in the end, as RNA and DNA are organophosphates, but they are the good kind....

One thing I have not seen written up is the stability of the OP in the oils we use, as we use them.....in agricultural use, they have a short half-life once applied.....most of them kill the insects on contact but breakdown quite rapidly with exposure to light and heat from the sun.....

I wonder just how much of the real toxic chemical form of OP remains after passing thru our combustors and heated well above 500C.......could be that the exhaust gases are really not that toxic, and all we must be careful of is the liquid form while we add to kero and during refueling.....

The airline cabin contamination problem is something I haven't heard much about before, but sure seems like it could be a problem for air crew, as well as passengers who routinely take long, transoceanic flights, if bad stuff can leak into the bleed air.......here in the U.S., I would bet the airlines have kept it quiet before all the data is in so as not to stir up the liability attorneys from suing the airlines every time someone gets sick while on a flight....most of the press here has reported only on the possibility of spreading disease, like the fellow from Atlanta with Tuberculosis earlier this year.....

Tom