Event
- Event ID
- 22
- Quality
- Description
- Break of pipeline in oil cracker, resulting in a continuous release in partially confined atmosphere.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Leak No Ignition (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Japan
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Pipe
- How was it involved?
- Rupture & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Hydrocracking process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- oil cracker
- Location type
- Semiconfined
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Emergency action
- The wagon with the LH2 tank was uncoupled from the goods train and shunted to a siding track of the railway station, till the end of the release.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2
CO - Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
From Bockholts and Koehorst,<br />
Handbuch Störfälle, 1992<br />
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2727450
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Scientific article
