Event
- Event ID
- 814
- Quality
- Description
- Follow a leak in a seal of a heat exchanger (metal-covered asbestos) a fire occurred in a reforming process.
The hydrogen-rich mixture caused spontaneous inflammation. The fire lasted 30 minutes.
The accident followed a series of various start / stops.
An annealing treatment had to be carried out on 2 points that had been watered during the incident. - 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
- France
- Date
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- INITIATING cause is the formation of hydrogen-rich mixture caused spontaneous inflammation.
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- catalytic reforming process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- heat exchanger
- Location type
- Open
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- An annealing treatment had to be carried out on 2 points that had been watered during the incident.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 (mainly)
- Presumed ignition source
- Auto-ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
ARIA data base <br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/26619/
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
