Digest
Understand the Reactivity of Your Heat Transfer Fluid! — Process Safety Beacon, February 2011
Understand the Reactivity of Your Heat Transfer Fluid! — Process Safety Beacon, February 2011
- CCPS
- Digest
- Process Safety Beacon February 2011
- Hazardous SubstancesProcess Safety
- ExplosionHazardous substancesLoss of containmentProcess safety
- Inspection and maintenance
- Process pipework and pipelines
- Operating and work proceduresPreventive maintenanceRisk assessment
- Downstream and process industries
Summary
This bulletin describes an oxidation-reactor piping explosion after nitrate-salt heat transfer fluid leaked into carbonaceous deposits in a dead-leg. It highlights reactions between utility fluids and process materials, recommending their inclusion in process hazard analysis, rigorous inspection and maintenance, leak recognition and safe shutdown procedures.
Classifications: Explosion; explosive atmospheres.
Classifications: Hazardous substances; hazardous chemicals; chemical exposure.
Classifications: Loss of containment; containment loss.
Classifications: Process safety; major accident hazards.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Process pipework and pipelines; process piping.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Preventive maintenance; preventative maintenance; planned maintenance.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Downstream and process industries; refining; petrochemicals.
Summary
One-page Beacon on chemical reactivity hazards of heat transfer fluids used in process heating systems.
Process Safety Beacon February 2011. Themes: hazardous substances, process safety.