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Accident # | 93686 |
State Police # | 07-00468 |
Accident Date | 2007-02-01 |
Report Date | 2007-02-08 |
Follow-up Date | 0000-00-00 |
Follow-up: | Yes |
Pollutant | Duration | Point Source | Greenhouse Gas | Criteria Pollutant | Ozone forming chemical | Amount of Release |
Hydrogen Sulfide | 120 h 0 m | Thermal Oxidizer (TOX) | NO | NO | NO | 1,785.0 pounds |
Accident Classified As:
TOX, which oxidizes H2S to SO2, began to malfunction and cause several shutdowns.
During periods of prolonged outages, they reduced the refinery throughput in order to minimize the sulfur load to the TOX.
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