Scenario

01. Ignorance
02. Insufficient Knowledge
03. Convincement
04. Poor Value Perception
05. Poor Safety Awareness
06. Inadequate Risk Recognition
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Thoughtless Storage Planning
10. Usage
11. Transport/Storage
12. Storage
13. Bad Event
14. Chemical Phenomenon
15. Heat Generation/Ignition
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Fire
19. Secondary Damage
20. External Damage
21. Explosion of Adjacent Plant

Spontaneous ignition of unsaturated fats and oils (peanut inner skin) stored for a long time
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
A substance which is easy to be oxidized may generate heat and ignite easily if it is stored in a condition of large surface area.

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