Petrochemistry

• Turf grass fire caused due to scatter from a flare stack (2000)
• Fire during drain work caused by generating an insulated state on hanging a bucket on the valve of an intermediate raw material drum for hydrocarbon resin (2000)
• Leakage of high-pressure ethylene gas from gland packing of an acetone injection valve at a low-density polyethylene manufacturing plant (1999)
• Leakage of hydraulic oil of an agitator caused due to increase in reaction fluid viscosity from contamination of a catalyst in a polystyrene polymerization reactor (1998)
• Leakage and fire of gas from a high-temperature heat exchanger at a benzene manufacturing plant using a dealkylation reaction (1998)
• Deformation of a kerosene tank in which a blind plate was inserted by mistake (1996)
• Fire caused due to incorrect opening of valves during sampling operation at a polypropylene manufacturing plant (1996)
• Overflow of gasoline from a plain gasoline tank of a factory (1995)
• Ink varnish leakage from trench piping of a lorry station (1994)
• Leakage and fire of hydrogen during exchange of a dehydrogenation catalyst at an alkylbenzene manufacturing plant (1994)
• Leakage and fire from a reactor flange during shutdown operation at a hydrogenation plant of pyrolysis gasoline (1993)
• Fire of naphtha caused due to an operator who went another site to do other work leaving a drain valve opened at an ethylene plant (1992)
• Fire of ethylene leaked from mounting part of a rupture disk of a polymerization reactor at a high-pressure polyethylene plant (1991)
• Explosion caused due to a high temperature from adiabatic compression during transferring high-pressure air at a polyethylene manufacturing plant (1991)
• Fire during renewal work of packing materials of a gasoline column at a ethylene manufacturing plant (1991)
• Fire of heptane due to improper valve handling at a polypropylene manufacturing plant (1989)
• Leakage of raw material oil from a hydrocarbon resin reactor at the beginning of a reaction (1989)
• Leakage and fire of naphtha caused due to overlooking of an open drain valve at an ethylene plant (1989)
• Fire and explosion in a butadiene rectifying column during preparation for turnaround shutdown maintenance (1988)
• Small leakage of naphtha from an opening caused due to corrosion of air piping for decoking at an ethylene manufacturing unit (1986)
• Fire of cracked gas leaked from outlet piping of an ethane cracking furnace at an ethylene manufacturing plant (1985)
• Explosion due to flame during welding to install piping to a neutralization tank at a hydrocarbon resin plant (1983)
• Fire from a vent stack of an extruder during a shutdown at a polyethylene manufacturing plant (1973)
• Fire due to inadequate finishing of an O- ring seal at a polyethylene manufacturing plant using a high-pressure method (1973)
• Explosion caused due to miss-handling of only one remote control valve separated from atmosphere in the polymerization reactor at a polypropylene manufacturing plant (1973)
• Fire at an acetylene hydrogenation section on rapid re-startup after an emergency shutdown at an ethylene plant (1973)