HIAD Facility - Application: Polyethylene Plant
During the polymerization of ethylene in a 750 liters pressurized reactor, an exothermic runaway decomposition occurred and ethylene and its decomposition products were released through the two…
In a polyethylene manufacturing plant, the explosion of a flammable cloud (isobutane, ethylene, hexane and hydrogen) escaped from a reactor during maintenance caused 23 fatalities and 314 injured…