Is pet coke a hazardous material?

Answer 1

Yes. Gasoline is regulated as a hazardous material (flammable liquid) in transportation. Gasoline is a flammable substance and it can harm your health if you have a substantial enough exposure to it.

Answer 2

According to the MSDS petroleum coke is considered hazardous under 29 CFR 1910.1200 (Hazard Communication).

For a more in depth analysis, see below:

The following is a quote from the Petroleum Coke Category Analysis and Hazard Characterization submitted to the EPA by the The American Petroleum Institute Petroleum HPV Testing Group on Dec. 28, 2007 (see also related links for full paper):

"Petroleum coke has an extremely low environmental hazard potential. Petroleum green coke demonstrated no effect on aquatic vertebrates and invertebrates, and only a slight effect on algae at 1000 mg/L (WAF). Petroleum green coke did not produce any adverse

effects when tested against terrestrial soil-dwelling invertebrates and vascular plants at 1000 mg/kg soil.

Petroleum coke has a low health hazard potential. Green coke is not acutely toxic. The acute inhalation toxicity NOAEL was estimated to be > 300 mg/m3. Findings observed in repeated-dose and chronic inhalational toxicity studies were confined to portal-of-entry effects that are attributed to non-specific effects of insoluble particles rather than petroleum coke-specific effects. The repeated-dose portal-of-entry LOAEL and systemic NOAEL were estimated to be < 10 mg/m3 and > 30 mg/m3, respectively. Green coke was not mutagenic in vitro in standard bacterial or mammalian cell assays. Green coke was mutagenic in modified in vitro bacterial assays developed to optimize detection of mutagenicity for certain classes of compounds that are negative in the standard bacterial assay. Green coke was not genotoxic in in vivo bone marrow chromosome cytogenetic assays. Green coke did not induce reproductive or developmental toxicity at exposures up to 300 mg/m3. The parental systemic, reproductive, and developmental toxicity NOAELs were all > 300 mg/m3. Green coke was not carcinogenic in two inhalation (rat and monkey; highest exposure concentration was 30 mg/m3) studies and one mouse dermal study (one exposure level only equal to100 μl of a 250mg/mL coke solution). "

Answer 3

According to the MSDS petroleum coke is considered hazardous under 29 CFR 1910.1200 (Hazard Communication).

Answer 4

"Pet coke" is more properly called "petroleum coke" and is derived from petroleum. Yes it is a hazardous material in teh sense that it can cause people to become ill.