Event
- Event ID
- 240
- Quality
- Description
A jet fire occurred on the ammonia production unit, caused by a leak on a hydrogen pipe.
Hearing a strange noise, an employee triggered the alarm after having discovered an ignited jet of hydrogen.
The affected ammonia unit was stopped and the production continued on two old units. No victims.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Date
- Component involved
- pipe (generic)
- Failure mode
- leak & ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2022
Facility
- Application
- Chemical industry
- Sub-application
- Fertilisers production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
hydrogen pipeline, ammonia reactor
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
No victims. The affected ammonia unit was stopped and the production continued on two old units. It took three weeks to repair the damage caused by the fire.
- Emergency action
An employee triggered the alarm. The production of ammonia was shut down.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
Event no. 14399 of the French database ARIA (accessed December 2020)
