Event
- Event ID
- 112
- Quality
- Description
Compressed hydrogen escaped from reactor due to faulty gasket.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- release, no ignition
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- flange (gasket)
- Failure mode
- rupture
- Initiating cause
- material degradation (generic)
- Root CAUSE analysis
The INITIATING CAUSE was the loss of containment due to the failing of a gasket.
ROOT CAUSE unknown.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Chemical industry
- Sub-application
- ammonia and derivates production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
ammonia reactor
- Process temperature range [C]
- High temperature (100°C to 500°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- medium to high pressure (10 to 50 MPa)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
- UNKNOWN
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
it could be assumed that the mentioned 'reactor' was probably the ammonia synthesis reactor.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 50.000
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
- Deflagration
References
- Sources categories
- Zalosh
- Reference & weblink
Extract from Table II of Appendix A of Zalosh and Short COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HYDROGEN FIRE AND EXPLOSION INCIDENTS Quarterly Report No. 2 for Period December 1, 1977 - February 28, 1978 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6566131 (accessed September 2020)
