Event
- Event ID
- 1005
- Quality
- Description
- The explosion and fire happened in a diesel hydro-treatment unit used to desulphurise raw diesel be means of hydrogen.
The facility was expected to begin full commercial operations later in 2020. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Malaysia
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Unknown
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Hc-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Hydrodesulphurisation process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- unknown
- Location type
- Open
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- The plant had not yet reached commercial oepration.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 2
- Number of fatalities
- 5
- Post-event summary
- The fire caused operations at the refinery to be stalled for almost two years and resumed in 2022.
Lesson Learnt
- Corrective Measures
The bus company requested the valve manufacturer to investigate the solenoid valve and to issue a report.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,
diesel - Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
IFW news of March 16, 2020<br />
https://www.industrialfireworld.com/546765/five-killed-in-malaysian-ref…The Edge news of 31 October 2022<br />
https://theedgemalaysia.com/article/frankly-speaking-yet-another-fire-p… />
(accessed December 2025)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- FireWorld
