Event
- Event ID
- 690
- Quality
- Description
The explosion occurred in the ammonia/hydrogen separator of the ammonia reactor due to metallurgical problem of the reactor construction.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Unknown
- Date
- Component involved
- reactor / oven / furnace / test chamber
- Failure mode
- internal explosion
- Initiating cause
- material degradation (generic)
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2021
Facility
- Application
- Chemical industry
- Sub-application
- ammonia and derivates production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
gas treatment / separation unit
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- medium pressure (2 to 10 MPa)
- Location type
- Confined
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
- UNKNOWN
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
Affected equipment. Reaction vessel and separator
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2, NH3
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
- Reference & weblink
Event description extracted from the UK database ICHEME in PDF.
The
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/
(accessed October 2020)
