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Industrial Fire Safety
Industrial Fire Safety
SAFETY
Er. DIVYA SHARMA
CRMCREM 1st yr
FIRE
Fire is an exothermic reaction, meaning it gives off heat
and light. Its also a combustion process that produces
smoke.
Fire requires four things to live.
Heat
Fuel
Oxidation
Chemical reaction.
INDUSTRIAL FIRE SAFETY
Controlling &
Eliminating
Flammable Liquids
Hot work
Combustible dust
Faulty Equipment & Machinery
GENERAL CAUSES FOR ELECTRICAL FIRE HAZARDS IN INDUSTRIES
•The tank was fitted with a pressure relief valve and rupture disc.
The vent line from the valve exhausted into a scrubbing tower filled
with caustic soda (NaOH). This would neutralize the MIC to form
Sodium isocyanate. Any residual gas from the scrubber was sent to a
30 m tall flare stack where it would be burned off.
•There was an external coiled jacket on the vessel through which coolant
(freon / chloroform) was re-circulated. This was to keep the
vessel contents at 0 C and thus prevent any adverse exothermic
reactions occurring.
•Tanks were not to be filled above the 50 % mark so that in the event of
dangerous chemical reactions occurring, solvents could be pumped in
to quench the reactions.
ACCIDENT
DESCRIPTION
Pipe Cleaning Procedure
As part of routine procedures, the pipes from the MIC
leading tanks were regularly with
distillation column
pressurized water. toMIC
the and
storage
any associated
flushed products can be quite
corrosive and could form corrosion deposits in the pipe. These
deposits would contaminate the MIC in the tanks and could initiate
unwanted reactions. During cleaning, valves in the product lines were
to be closed and a blank or slip-blind placed in the product line leading to
the storage tank to prevent contamination.
Carbide in Bhopal
1 Methylene Chloride 100 MT Solvent Air
2 Methanol 50 MT Solvent Air
3 Ortho-idichlorobenzene 500 MT Solvent Air, Water, Soil
4 Carbon tetrachloride 500 MT Solvent Air
5 Chloroform 300 MT Solvent Air
6 Tri methylamine 50 MT Catalyst Air
7 Chloro benzyl chloride 10 MT Ingredient Air, Water, Soil
8 Mono chloro toluene 10 MT Ingredient Air, Water, Soil
9 Toluene 20 MT Ingredient Air, Water, Soil
10 Aldicarb 2 MT Product Air, Water, Soil
11 Carbaryl 50 MT Product Air, Water, Soil
12 Benzene Hexachloride 5 MT Ingredient Air, Water, Soil
13 Mercury 1 MT Water, Soil
14 Mono methyl amine 25 MT Ingredient Air
15 Chlorine 20 MT Ingredient Air
16 Phosgene 5 MT Ingredient Air
17 Hydro chloric acid 50 MT Ingredient Air, Soil
18 Chloro sulphonic acid 50 MT Ingredient Air, Soil
19 Alpha Naphthol * 50 MT Ingredient Air, Soil
20 Napthalin 50 MT Ingredient Air
21 Chemical waste Tar 50 MT Waste Water, Soil
22 Methyl Isocyanate 5 MT Ingredient Air, Water, Soil
HAPHAZARD DUMPING OF
HAZARDOUS MATERIAL
Toxic materials found in Soil and
Water after the accident
Benzene, oxides 7, 890
Dichlorobenzenes 87,500
Trichlorobenzenes 9,410
1-Napthalenol 59,090