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Fire And Lorry Tankers Explosions

Fire and lorry tankers explosions

  • FRANCE
At 8:24 pm, a passer-by noticed a cab fire in one of the three lorry tankers in a convoy transporting liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) that were parked at the premises of a landscaping firm. The fire quickly spread and around[...]
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Release Of Sulphur Dioxide In A Cellulose Factory

Release of sulphur dioxide in a cellulose factory

  • ALLEMAGNE
In a cellulose manufacturing plant, sulphur dioxide leaked following a loss of air tightness of a cover of a reactor. Cellulose is manufactured in a process where wood chips are heated in a vessel containing sulphuric acid and sulphur dioxide.[...]
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Explosions In A Chemical Plant

Explosions in a chemical plant

  • ROYAUME-UNI
A little after midnight, an extremely flammable gas leak occurred in the ammonium manufacturing unit of a chemical plant manufacturing nitrogen fertilisers. The gas, mainly, consisting of hydrogen, escaped from a valve. Released at 220 bar and 120°C, it ignited[...]
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Explosion Of The Dome Of A Sulphuric Acid Tank

Explosion of the dome of a sulphuric acid tank

  • FRANCE
An explosion occurred in a chemical site causing the cover of a 99.2% sulphuric acid tank (filled to 300 t of its total 1500 tonne capacity) to open partially. The cover opened along the circumference of the tank at the[...]
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Ethylene emission

  • FRANCE
Around 6.15 am, a rupture disk at a chemical site opened on a grease cylinder of the medium return pressure system (MPR) on one of the lines in the polyethylene workshop that had been shut down for programmed maintenance; 1.4[...]
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Incident in the polyethylene workshop

  • FRANCE
A rupture disk in a plastics factory opened on the medium pressure return (MPR) line of a compressor due to a pressure increase on discharge side of the primary compressor, resulting in the release of 3.2 t ethylene into the[...]
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Ammonia Leakage In A Refrigerated Warehouse

Ammonia leakage in a refrigerated warehouse

  • FRANCE
An ammonia container or pressurised drum (NH3) was leaking within a frozen foods warehouse located in an industrial estate. The accident occurred at the time a refrigerating unit condenser was being replaced after being partially emptied of its NH3 contents[...]
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Refinery explosion and fires

  • ETATS-UNIS
At 1.20 pm, a violent explosion rocked a gasoline isomerisation unit in a refinery. Having been shut down for maintenance one month earlier, the separator was being restarted at 2 am. The operators began filling the raffinate splitter with highly[...]
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Release Of LPG At A Railcar Tank Loading Station

Release of LPG at a railcar tank Loading station

  • FRANCE
Approximately 2 kg of propane were released into the atmosphere at an LPG filling centre (Seveso installation) and designed to supply customers throughout the region.A tank car was moved while it was being loaded, causing a gas leak. Positioned at[...]
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Rupture And Ignition Of A Gas Pipeline

Rupture and ignition of a gas pipeline

  • BELGIQUE
The gas pipe connecting Zeebrugge to the Franco-Belgian border exploded violently in an industrial zone. Around 8.30 am, a leak was detected by the hissing sound made by the escaping, still odourless at that stage. The emergency services arrived for[...]
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