Event
- Event ID
- 624
- Quality
- Description
A fire broke out on a heat exchanger in a hydrocarbons plant. The cause of the fire was leakage of hydrogen.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Italy
- Date
- Component involved
- heat exchanger (generic)
- Failure mode
- leak & ignition
- Initiating cause
- material degradation (generic)
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2020
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical industry
- Sub-application
- unspecified power plant
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
Heat exchanger
- 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 nr 866 of the UK database ICHEME in PDF
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/
(accessed October 2020)CHEMICAL MARKETING REPORTER 25-2-74; EUROPEAN CHEMICAL NEWS, 1974, 15 FEB.
