Event
- Event ID
- 120
- Quality
- Description
More than 50 tons of liquid chlorine exploded after mixing with hydrogen ina pulp and paper plant in Arkhangelsk.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Russia
- Date
- Component involved
- unknown
- Failure mode
- unknown
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Chemical industry
- Sub-application
- pulp and paper production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
chlor-alkali electrolyser
- Process temperature range [C]
- unknown
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- unknown
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- unknown
- Number of injured persons
- unknown
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,Cl2
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
Site dedicated to catastrophes in the Soviet Unit in the period 53-89:
