Scenario

01. Carelessness
02. Insufficient Understanding
03. No Connection of Thinking between Freezing Point and Condenser
04. Organizational Problems
05. Inflexible Management Structure
06. Insufficient Education/Training
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Condenser Designed below Freezing Point
10. Non-Regular Action
11. Emergency Action
12. No Action at Abnormal temperature Rise
13. Bad Event
14. Mechanical Event
15. Plugging
16. Bad Event
17. Chemical Phenomenon
18. Abnormal Reaction
19. Secondary Damage
20. External Damage
21. Explosion
22. Loss to Organization
23. Economic Loss

Explosion of an o-nitrochlorobenzene melting drum caused due to a temperature rise caused by reflux piping blockage
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Solidification makes plugging in a tube. Careful consideration is required to condense for high freezing poit material.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author YOSHINAGA, Jun (Graduate School of New Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)