Event
- Event ID
- 689
- Quality
- Description
- An explosion occurred in the transformation section of a fertiliser manufacturer, resulting in 8 deaths and 3 injuries.
A leak in the secondary pipeline of the 1st conversion system, and caused the release and ignition of combustible gas (mainly carbon monoxide, hydrogen, etc.) resulting in a space explosion. The ignition source was possibly static electricity generated by the emission of the gases. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Date
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Fertilisers production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- pipe
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 3
- Number of fatalities
- 8
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2, CO
- Presumed ignition source
- Static electricity
References
- Reference & weblink
Ministry of Emergy Management, <br />
Hazardous chemical accidents that occurred in July in history: <br />
https://www.mem.gov.cn/fw/jsxx/202106/t20210630_390326.shtml<br />
(last retrieved 20.02.2023)B.Wang et al., Hydrogen related accidents and lesson learned from events reported in the<br />
in east continental Asia,#2023, ICHS-2023
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
