Event
- Event ID
- 554
- Quality
- Description
- An explosion at a refinery Hydrotreater plant involving a furnace and hydrogen caused by faulty operation. Source of ignition was furnace.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Jordan
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Reactor / Oven / Furnace / Test Chamber
- How was it involved?
- Internal Explosion
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- hydrotreatment
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- cracker and reactors and reaction equipment
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Hot surface
References
- Reference & weblink
event 2284 of the UK database ICHEME in PDF format.<br />
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/ <br />
(accessed October 2020)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
