Event
- Event ID
- 699
- Quality
- Description
An explosion or fire occurred in a hydro-treatment unit which was processing Fluid Catalytic Cracking feedstock. It was caused by a failure in a pipe downstream from a separator, resulting in the release and ignition of hydrogen and hydrocarbons in the unit area.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- 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
- Hydrodesulphurisation process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
hydro-treater, connectiong pipelines
- Location type
- Confined
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 2
In-depth data
- Release type
- Gas-liquid mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,
hydrocarbons - Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
- Reference & weblink
Event 4700 of the UK database ICHEME
Primary source was in LOSS PREVENTION BULLETIN, 099, 3
(source notavailable anymore)
