Event
- Event ID
- 963
- Quality
- Description
A sudden fire started at the hydrogen compressor of a refinery's hydrocracking unit.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- India
- Date
- Component involved
- compressor / booster / pump
- Failure mode
- rupture
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2018
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical industry
- Sub-application
- Hydrodesulphurisation process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
H2 compressor
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- medium pressure (2 to 10 MPa)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 5
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
The fire caused the death of 5 people. The other units of the refinery continued operation, only the hydrocracker was stopped during the time of the first investigations. The refinery were of recent construction.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
Event description in the French database ARIA https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/15808/ (accessed October 2020)
Event description extracted from the UK database ICHEME in PDF ICHEME database is no longer available for purchase, but data can be download as PDF for free. https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/ (accessed October 2020)
Rigas F., Amyotte P., Hydrogen safety, Green chemistry and chemical engineering, CRC Press, Taylor & Frances Group; 2012. ISBN-13: 978-1439862315
