16.6 Cargoes not to be exposed to excessive heat
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16.6 Cargoes not to be exposed to excessive heat

  16.6.1 Where the possibility exists of a dangerous reaction of a cargo, such as polymerization, decomposition, thermal instability or evolution of gas, resulting from local overheating of the cargo in either the tank or associated pipelines, such cargo shall be loaded and carried adequately segregated from other products whose temperature is sufficiently high to initiate a reaction of such cargo (see 7.1.5.4).

  16.6.2 Heating coils in tanks carrying this product shall be blanked off or secured by equivalent means.

  16.6.3 Heat-sensitive products shall not be carried in deck tanks, which are not insulated.

  16.6.4 In order to avoid elevated temperatures, this cargo shall not be carried in deck tanks.


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