Event
- Event ID
- 580
- Quality
- Description
An explosion occurred caused by a leak of hydrogen from a reactor on a fertilizer plant. The blast hurled the head of a hydrogen gas converter 150m and sent it crashing through reinforced-concrete beams in a warehouse roof. The factory supplied hydrochloric acid, ammonium sulphate and urea to other plants. Damage estimated at approximately, £1 million of 1985.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Portugal
- 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
- Chemical industry
- Sub-application
- Fertilisers production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
Reactors and reaction equipment, warehouse
- 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
- 8
- Post-event summary
Damage to equipment.
The blast hurled the head of a hydrogen gas converter 150m and sent it crashing through reinforced-concrete beams in a warehouse roof. The factory supplied hydrochloric acid, ammonium sulphate and urea to other plants. Damage estimated at approximately, £1 million. (1985).
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- Unknown
- Reference & weblink
Original source lost
