Event
- Event ID
- 150
- Quality
- Description
A rupture of a tube in the furnace of an oil refinery caused it to loose 700 pounds of diesel and hydrogen resulting in a fire. The fire burned for a half hour with 30- to 40-foot (10 to 12 m) flames. No one was injured.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- heat exchanger (pipe)
- Failure mode
- rupture
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root CAUSE analysis
Both INITIATING and ROOT CAUSES are unknown. Assuming that the 'tube in the furnace' was part of the fired-heater pre-heating the feedstock H2+diesel, the INITIATING CAUSE could be over-heating. But this is not confirmed by any evidence provided by the sources.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical industry
- Sub-application
- hydrocracking process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
heat exchanger
- Process temperature range [C]
- Very high temperature (500°C to 1000°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- medium pressure (2 to 10 MPa)
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
Nobody was injured, prperty losses unknown. 320 kg of a diesel-hydrogen mixture were released.
In-depth data
- Release type
- Gas mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,
diesel - Released amount (kg)
- 700
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- Wikipedia
- Reference & weblink
Wikipedia lemma "List of natural gas and oil production accidents in the United States"
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:DownloadAsPdf&page=L…
(accessed January 2025)DeseretNews
(accessed Jan 2025, link lost)
