Event
- Event ID
- 550
- Quality
- Description
- An incident occurred on a compressor at a refinery Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU) plant involving hydrogen. Source of ignition was hot surface.
- 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
- Thailand
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Compressor / Booster / Pump
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
- Root CAUSE analysis
- Hot surface as source of ignition.
Unclear the starting event.
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- paraffin production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Compression (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- H2 compressor
- 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 550 of the UK database ICHEME<br />
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/ <br />
(accessed October 2020)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
