Event
- Event ID
- 240
- Quality
- Description
- A jet fire occurred on the ammonia production unit, caused by a leak on a hydrogen pipe.
Hearing a strange noise, an employee triggered the alarm after having discovered an ignited jet of hydrogen.
The affected ammonia unit was stopped and the production continued on two old units. No victims. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Pipe
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Fertilisers production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- hydrogen pipeline, ammonia reactor
- Location type
- Open
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- No victims. The affected ammonia unit was stopped and the production continued on two old units. It took three weeks to repair the damage caused by the fire.
- Emergency action
- Manual isolation valves were shut to close in the segment and it was manually blown down.
Blowdown of the isolated segment was completed in one day.
64 thousand standard cubic feet went lost during the leak (unintentional release), 759 because of the depressurisation action (intentional release)
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Event no. 14399 of the French database ARIA (accessed December 2020)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
