Event
- Event ID
- 578
- Quality
- Description
- A fire occurred in a hydrogen and catalyst loading line of heavy oil unit. The most likely cause was that a hydrogen purge pipeline failed allowing hydrogen to escape. This mixed with hot oil bringing the temperature to approximately 825 degrees F (441 degrees C), i.e. above the auto-ignition temperature.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Kuwait
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Pipe
- How was it involved?
- Rupture & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- catalytic reforming process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- hydrogen purge pipeline, catalyst loading lines of heavy oil unit
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- Fire
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Hot surface
References
- Reference & weblink
Extract from the ICHEME database on equipment details
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
