Event
- Event ID
- 963
- Quality
- Description
- A sudden fire started at the hydrogen compressor of a refinery's hydrocracking unit.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- India
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Compressor / Booster / Pump
- How was it involved?
- Fire
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Hydrodesulphurisation process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Compression (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- hydrogen compressor
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 5
- Post-event summary
- The fire caused the death of 5 people. The other units of the refinery continued operation, only the hydrocracker was stopped during the time of the first investigations.
The refinery were of recent construction.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description in the French database ARIA<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/15808/<br />
(accessed October 2020)<br />Event description extracted from the UK database ICHEME in PDF<br />
ICHEME database is no longer available for purchase, but data can be download as PDF for free.<br />
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/… />
(accessed October 2020)<br />Rigas F., Amyotte P., Hydrogen safety, Green chemistry and chemical engineering, CRC Press, Taylor & Frances Group; 2012. ISBN-13: 978-1439862315
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
