HIAD Facility - Application: Hydrotreatment

The fire started 3 hours after being shut down. The unit was shut down and the fire extinguished.The oven contained only gaseous products and mainly hydrogen.

In a residual-oil hydrotreatment unit (also called residual oil hydrogenation) plant, a hydrogenation unit caught fire with a huge bang, followed by a fireball in the form of a mushroom cloud. Black…

An explosion at a refinery Hydrotreater plant involving a furnace and hydrogen caused by faulty operation. Source of ignition was furnace.

Localized corrosion of a FCCU (Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit) feed Hydrotreater recycle hydrogen line by-pass around a hydrogen pre-heat exchanger led to an explosion and fire.The failed part of the…

The fire started as a result of an explosion in the process section of a refinery. An open structure of steelwork protected with reinforced concrete housed the usual furnaces, reactors, heat…

An explosion and fire occurred at a reciprocating recycle hydrogen compressor during commissioning of a new Diesel hydrotreatement Unit. It happened during the reactor pre-sulphidisation step, when…

The incident occurred during a temporary shutdown of the distillate hydro-treatement unit. The crude oil distillation units main column overhead product was pumped to a gasoline storage tank via the…

An explosion or fire occurred in a hydro-treatment unit which was processing Fluid Catalytic Cracking feedstock. It was caused by a failure in a pipe downstream from a separator, resulting in the…