Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Insufficient Recognition of Risk
04. Organizational Problems
05. Poor Management
06. Slackness of Management
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Insufficient Schedule Management at Shutdown
10. Non-Regular Operation
11. Change in Operation
12. Operation Differ from Direction
13. Failure
14. Deformation
15. Shrinkage of Piping/Heat Exchanger
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Fire

Leakage and fire of fuel oil from a flange between a heat exchanger and piping during shutdown operation at a vacuum gas oil hydrodesulfurization unit
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Metals must shrink at temperature dropping, so rapid temperature drop has to be avoided.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author KOSEKI, Hirosi (National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)