Event
- Event ID
- 624
- Quality
- Description
- A fire broke out on a heat exchanger in a hydrocarbons plant. The cause of the fire was leakage of hydrogen.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Italy
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Heat Exchanger
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Material Degradation (Generic)
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- unspecified
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- Heat exchanger
- 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
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Event nr 866 of the UK database ICHEME in PDF<br />
<br />
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/… />
(accessed October 2020)<br />CHEMICAL MARKETING REPORTER 25-2-74; EUROPEAN CHEMICAL NEWS, 1974, 15 FEB.
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
