Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Insufficient Safety Measure
04. Ignorance
05. Insufficient Knowledge
06. Insufficient Past Information Collection
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Poor Design
10. Bad Event
11. Thermo-Fluid Event
12. Erosion by Mixed Flow
13. Failure
14. Abrasion
15. Erosion
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Fire

Fire caused due to erosion of a water injection nozzle to reactor outlet piping at a heavy oil hydrodesulfurization unit
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
A water injection to a gas process may occur erosin by formation of the mixed flow. Take care of the piping design.

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)