Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Insufficient Analysis or Research
05. Insufficient Prior Research
06. No Study about Heat of Adsorption,etc.
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Poor Design
10. Bad Event
11. Chemical Phenomenon
12. Heat generation
13. Secondary Damage
14. External Damage
15. Explosion/Fire
16. Bodily Harm
17. Injury
18. 57 person injured
19. Loss to Organization
20. Economic Loss
21. Manetary Damage 150 mollion yen

Explosion caused due to heat of adsorption of an adsorption tower used to deodorize a methyl acrylate tank
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
An adsorption treatmrnt against odor resulted an explosion which occurred by heat of adsortion and heat of oxidation.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author WADA, Yuji (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)