Event
- Event ID
- 674
- Quality
- Description
Fire in an ammonia plant
A fire broke out in the hydrogen section of ammonia plant.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Netherlands
- Date
- Component involved
- unknown
- Failure mode
- unknown
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- 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
ammonia reactor
- Process temperature range [C]
- unknown
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- unknown
- 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
- NEWS
- Reference & weblink
ICIS News of 15 August 1993
https://www.icis.com/explore/resources/news/1993/08/16/25972/fires-hit-…
(accessed November 2020)
