Event
- Event ID
- 587
- Quality
- Description
- Explosion and fire in gasholder storing hydrogen in a thermal black plant
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Gasometer/Gasholder
- How was it involved?
- Internal Explosion (H2-Air Mixture)
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- carbon black plant
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- gasholder
- Location type
- Confined
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
- DESCRIPTION OF THE FACILITY
thermal black is a material produced by the incomplete combustion of coal tar, vegetable matter, or petroleum products.
It is used as a colorant and reinforcing filler in tires and other rubber products; pigment and wear protection additive in plastics, paints, and ink pigment
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
CHEMICAL AGE, 1976, 15 OCT.
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
