Event
- Event ID
- 554
- Quality
- Description
An explosion at a refinery Hydrotreater plant involving a furnace and hydrogen caused by faulty operation. Source of ignition was furnace.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Jordan
- Date
- Component involved
- reactor / oven / furnace / test chamber
- Failure mode
- internal explosion
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2020
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical industry
- Sub-application
- Hydrodesulphurisation process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
cracker and reactors and reaction equipment
- 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
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
- Reference & weblink
event 2284 of the UK database ICHEME in PDF format.
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/
(accessed October 2020)
