Event
- Event ID
- 550
- Quality
- Description
An incident occurred on a compressor at a refinery Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU) plant involving hydrogen. Source of ignition was hot surface.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Thailand
- Date
- Component involved
- compressor / booster / pump
- Failure mode
- leak
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root CAUSE analysis
Hot surface as source of ignition. Unclear the starting event.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2020
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical industry
- Sub-application
- Hydrocracking process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
H2 compressor
- Process temperature range [C]
- unknown
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- unknown
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
- UNKNOWN
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
- Reference & weblink
event 550 of the UK database ICHEME https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/ (accessed October 2020)
