Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Insufficient Analysis or Research
05. Insufficient Practice
06. Lack of Imagination
07. Carelessness
08. Insufficient Precaution
09. Carelessness of Planner
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Poor Planning of Washing
13. Usage
14. Maintenance/Repair
15. Wrong finishing
16. Bad Event
17. Chemical Phenomenon
18. Concentration
19. Failure
20. Fracture/Damage
21. Cracking
22. Secondary Damage
23. External Damage
24. Leakage/Fire

Leakage and fire of hydrogen caused due to stress corrosion cracking that originated from the influence of turnaround shutdown maintenance on a drain valve at hydrogen gas piping in a fuel oil desulfurization cracking unit
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Failure of finishing polythionic acid treating against cracking generation resulted the crack of drain valve.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author DOBASHI, Ritsu (School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)