Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Safety Countermeasure
04. Insufficient Analysis or Research
05. Insufficient Practice
06. Lack of Imagination
07. Sulfonation Reaction
08. Planning and Design
09. Poor Planning
10. Poor Design
11. Usage
12. Maintenance/Repair
13. Insufficient Observation
14. Failure
15. Abrasion
16. Opening
17. Bad Event
18. Chemical Phenomenon
19. Abnormal Reaction
20. Secondary Damage
21. External Damage
22. Explosion
23. Bodily Harm
24. Injury

Burst of the reactor due to leaked water into the p-nitrotoluene sulfonic acid reactor
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Concentrated sulfuric acid generates heat by contamination with water. One more effort to design and maintenance of the equipment !!

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author OGAWA, Terushige (Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)