Event
- Event ID
- 555
- Quality
- Description
- A severe fire in a hydrogen compressor building in a an oil sands refinery reportedly started in a 1,500 psi (103 bar) lube oil system.
Fire fighting was difficult because of 40 degrees F temperature (4 degree celsius).
The building reportedly housed three centrifugal hydrogen recycle compressors, a centrifugal natural gas compressor and two 4,000 horsepower reciprocating compressors. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Compressor / Booster / Pump
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Hydrodesulphurisation process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Compression (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- Reactor
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
- DESCRIPTION of the Installation:
Feed (diesel stock) preheat is supplied via effluent exchange and a bottom fired vertical tube, four pass "can type" furnace. Each heater pass consists of 10 rows of 9-chrome tubes around the circumference of the radiant section and 12 rows of extended surface 9-chrome tubes in the convection section. External inlet block valves on each pass have been used for flow balancing. Combined heater outlet (reactor inlet) temperature regulates the fuel gas to four combination burners.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Actual pressure (MPa)
- 10
- Design pressure (MPa)
- 10
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
- Flame type
- Other
References
- Reference & weblink
event 2319 of the UK database ICHEMEin PDF format.<br />
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/ <br />
(accessed October 2020)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
