Event
- Event ID
- 980
- Quality
- Description
- In a fertilizer manufacturing plant, a gas leak occurred at an ammonia unit heat exchanger located in a ventilated area outside.
The operator partially stopped the unit, set up steam hoses and monitored the situation by taking measurements outside in the field. At this stage of the process, the gas is composed of hydrogen, water vapour, methane and nitrogen.
The unit restarted the next day. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Leak No Ignition (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Fertilisers production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- ammonia reactor, heat exchanger
- Location type
- Open
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,
Steam,
CH4,
N2 - Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description no 54884 in the French database ARIA <br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/54884/ <br />
(accessed October 2021)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
