Event
- Event ID
- 1073
- Quality
- Description
- A hydrogen leakage caught fire in the hydrogen compressor area of the continuous reforming unit. The reforming unit and the hydrocracking unit were immediately stopped. The hydrogen flow was cut off, a protective combustion was carried out and the fire was completely extinguished after approximately 20 minutes, with no casualties.
- 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
- China
- 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
- Steam methane reforming
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- hydrogen compressor
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESS
The reformer shut down had an 800,000 tonne/year capacity.
The benzene unit, also shut down, a capacity of 100,000 tonne/year.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- The shutdown of the reformer and the benzene units reduced temporary the company’s gasoline outputs. It affected also the quality of naphtha supplied to ethylene plant and the quantity of hydrogenation materials for about two weeks.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
INF news of 24 April 2022<br />
https://inf.news/ne/economy/0c553bbea6950f07488715a0b361a06f.html?utm_c… />
(accessed July 2023)ICIS news of25 April 2022<br />
https://www.icis.com/explore/resources/news/2022/04/25/10757175/fire-hi… />
(accessed July 2023)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
