Event
- Event ID
- 120
- Quality
- Description
- Huge explosion of liquid chlorine mixed with hydrogen took place on pulp and paper plant in Arkhangelsk. More than 50 tons of liquid chlorine exploded.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Unknown
- How was it involved?
- Unknown
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- pulp and paper production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- probably chlrine electrolysis process, chlorine storage
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Emergency action
- Emergency responders were dispatched to the scene and the facility deluge system was turned on. This system is designed to cover the trailer fill aisle with water: it consists of nozzles at the rear of the trailer and a fire cannon directed to the front. When the emergency responders arrived, they immediately began spraying the adjacent trailers to ensure that they stayed cool.
The emergency crews closed the 10 individual tube fill isolation valves located at the rear of the tube trailer and this extinguished the fire. Total time to control the incident was less than 10 minutes and there was no property damage from this event.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,
Cl - Released amount
- 50 t (Cl)
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
- Deflagration
- N
- High pressure explosion
- N
- High voltage explosion
- N
References
- Reference & weblink
Provided to HIAD 1.0 by HySafe NoE. (Original source unavailable).
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