Scenario

01. Insufficient Analysis or Research
02. Insufficient Practice
03. No Imagination on Operation Condition
04. Poor Value Perception
05. Poor Safety Awareness
06. Insufficient Safety Measure
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Poor Design
10. Usage
11. Operation/Use
12. Purge
13. Bad Event
14. Chemical Phenomenon
15. Oxidation
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Explosion

Explosion at draw-off piping to remove hydrocarbons from liquid oxygen during changing filters at an air liquefaction separator
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Liquid oxygen is a strong oxidizer. Even if at very low temperature, oxydizing capability is still strong.

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