Taking Notes from T2 Plant Explosion
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
A runaway reaction that caused explosion at T2 plant on 19 December 2007 had caused four persons died. Cooling pipe blockage or failed valve probably caused the temperature and pressure inside the batch reactor to become uncontrolled and the relief system could not work to save the system.
I am very interested to what Robert Hall, CSB investigation supervisor, said about T2 plant accident as reported by tce recently. It directly deals with how hazard identification or HAZOP study holds a vital role in recognizing uncontrolled reaction risk since process designing phase. (more…)
