Packing and Transport of Chemicals
Procedures for BioNut

All chemicals

In the move to Neo all chemicals will be moved by Stena or Rexab into the chemical storage rooms. To get this transport smooth and to the correct location, all bottles have to be labeled with the group code (or if common chemicals with BioNut, NVS, HERM, etc.). This will make it possible for the different groups to retrieve their chemicals later. In addition to the group code, the room number of the receiving chemical storage has to be on the bottles, or on a containing package.

The labels will be of different sizes(19x21 mm and a few of 74x105 mm). The group code and room number of the chemical storage will be printed on them. The labels are provided by Håkan Ottosson.

Chemicals without hazard symbols

Harmless chemicals (chemicals without any risk label, e.g. amino acid, carbohydrates, common salts, ...) have to be packed by the group in ordinary moving boxes (packing material may be needed to protect them). The boxes containing the chemicals should be marked with the destination storage. The chemicals are then moved to Neo by the moving company, Rexab.

Liquid chemicals must be placed inside a plastic enclosure, e.g. a large plastic box and surrounded by absorbent and then put inside the moving box. Put the bottle inside a plastic bag before filling with absorbent to avoid the problem to get rid of all absorbent from the bottle when you unpack it.

Hazardous Chemicals[1]

Hazardous chemicals, the chemicals with risk symbols, see Figure 1, are going to be packed and transported by the company that handles our chemical waste,Stena. To make the sorting and packing easier and more efficient, these chemicals have to be put in an easily accessible place. This means, collect the chemicals you have in different locations in your lab(s) in a common place, e.g. the local chemical storage. If you have a cupboard in your lab that is used for many (really many!) chemicals, that may be used.

Chemicals in fridges and freezers

The content in fridges is packed into styrofoam boxes in the morning when the lab is going to be moved. The content is then unpacked into the fridges in the afternoon, after the move, by dedicated people from the group (maybe the same as did the packing).

The inside height of the provided Styrofoam boxes is limited to bottles not taller than 25 cm. If you have taller bottles, put them in a taller Styrofoam box and put inside a moving box with appropriate labels for chemicals and your group.

The content in freezers is moved inside the freezers, unless sensitive, risk for leakage.The freezers have to be filled with packing material to keep the content safe.

If you know that you have large bottles that need to be kept cold, save some large Styrofoam boxes you probably already store somewhere.

Hazardous Chemicals in fridges and freezers

The hazardous chemicals (and other hazardous material) stored in fridges and freezers has to be packed into styrofoam boxes and stored in cold/freezer rooms in Novum before the moving of the lab equipment by Rexab. Stena will move those chemicals to Neo at a later date. After the move of those chemicals you have to retrieve them from the cold/freezer rooms in Neo and unpack them into your fridges and freezers. Liquid chemicals should be packed in a containing plastic box, use the same procedure as described for “Chemicals without hazard symbols”, above.

Chemical Storage in Novum – before packingby Stena

You may leave your hazardous chemicals in a dedicated cupboard, if the total amount of chemicals in that location is larger than 100 bottles. Otherwise you have to move them to a common location. Please fill in the form at the next page where your chemicals are stored.

Chemicals Storages:

  • 6O 06:04, 6D 23:03 (on the floor plan – real number 6D 23:05), and 6L 18:03 (with code lock)
  • 7D 21:11, 7J 21:03, and 7D 21:11

Cold rooms:

  • 6D 23:06 and6J 18:11
  • 7D 23:04 and7J 21:07

Freezer rooms:

  • 6J 18:10

See floor plans below to find them

Notes

The company specialized in handling chemicals, Stena, cannothandle a very large amount of different boxes in the limited time we are doing the move.So it may be necessary to transport different groups' chemicals together, therefore all bottles need a group code. Certain types of chemicals may not be transported together[2] and the way the different groupssorted their chemicals into boxes, before handling by Stena, may not be according to the law. It will be easier for Stena if the destination is on the bottle, if they need to move them to another transport package.

The groups willunpack the chemicals in the chemical storage and/or move them to their lab. Stena, who manages the transport,cannot transport them to the different labs, therefore everything have to be transported to the chemical storage. The cabinet spacefor chemicals is limited in the lab, so onlythe chemicals used daily should be stored there. The rest should be stored in the chemical storage. The amount of storage space and how to organize it the common chemical storage has to be sorted out after the move.

Please fill in this form and hand it over to Johan Dethlefsen

You may leave your hazardous chemicals in a dedicated cupboard, if the total amount of chemicals in that location is larger than 100 bottles. Otherwise you have to move them to a common location.

Group / Estimated amount of bottles / Location of the chemicals in Novum / Comments
e.g. has to be kept at -20°C / in ventilated cupboard / … / Chemical Storage in Neo
or other location
Used by Stena

[1] Org.Chem. (RST) is packing and moving their own hazardous chemicals under supervision of BioNut Work Environment coordinator, Håkan Ottosson

[2] E.g. Oxidising substances must not be transported or stored together with substances that may be oxidized, such as flammable substances; Acids should not be transported or stored together with bases.