Scenario

01. Insufficient Analysis or Research
02. Insufficient Prior Research
03. Erosion of Heat Exchanger Tube
04. Poor Value Perception
05. Poor Safety Awareness
06. Inadequate Risk Recognition
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Poor Design
10. Usage
11. Maintenance/Repair
12. Insufficient Inspection
13. Bad Event
14. Thermo-Fluid Event
15. Erosion
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Leakage

Fire occurred due to dispersion of molten nitrate caused by high-pressure steam entering into a molten nitrate vessel of a phthalic anhydride reactor after opening a steam generation tube
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
An erosion was generated by insufficient analysisis at U bend of heat exchanger tube

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author WAKAKURA, Masahide (Kanagawa Industrial Technology Research Institute)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)