Event
- Event ID
- 545
- Quality
- Description
- A fire occurred at a refinery hydrocracker plant involving a gauge glass and hydrogen gas oil.
- 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
- United Kingdom
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Joint/Connection (Glass)
- How was it involved?
- Rupture & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Hc-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Hydrocracking process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- gauge glass
- Location type
- Unknown
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2, gas oil
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Event nr 1859 of the UK database ICHEME in PDF format.<br />
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/ <br />
(accessed October 2020)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
