Event
- Event ID
- 578
- Quality
- Description
A fire occurred in a hydrogen and catalyst loading line of heavy oil unit. The most likely cause was that a hydrogen purge pipeline failed allowing hydrogen to escape. This mixed with hot oil bringing the temperature to approximately 825 degrees F (441 degrees C), i.e. above the auto-ignition temperature.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Kuwait
- Date
- Component involved
- pipe (generic)
- Failure mode
- rupture & ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2020
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical industry
- Sub-application
- Catalytic reforming processes
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
hydrogen purge pipeline, catalyst loading lines of heavy oil unit
- Process temperature range [C]
- High temperature (100°C to 500°C)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
Fire
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release temperature [°C]
- 440
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
- Reference & weblink
Extract from the ICHEME database on equipment details
