Event
- Event ID
- 587
- Quality
- Description
Explosion and fire in gasholder storing hydrogen in a thermal black plant
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Date
- Component involved
- gasholder/gasometer (H2)
- Failure mode
- internal explosion
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2020
Facility
- Application
- Chemical industry
- Sub-application
- carbon black plant
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
gasholder
- Location type
- Confined
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
- UNKNOWN
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
DESCRIPTION OF THE FACILITY
thermal black is a material produced by the incomplete combustion of coal tar, vegetable matter, or petroleum products.
It is used as a colorant and reinforcing filler in tires and other rubber products; pigment and wear protection additive in plastics, paints, and ink pigment
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- unknown
- Number of injured persons
- unknown
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
CHEMICAL AGE, 1976, 15 OCT.
