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Accident # | 124744 |
State Police # | 10-03850 |
Accident Date | 2010-07-12 |
Report Date | 2010-07-19 |
Follow-up Date | 0000-00-00 |
Follow-up: | No |
Pollutant | Duration | Point Source | Greenhouse Gas | Criteria Pollutant | Ozone forming chemical | Amount of Release |
Sulfur Dioxide | 4h 22m | FLARE:Catalytic Hydrotreater, SRU #2 & #3 [EPN 18-74] | NO | YES | NO | 12,681.0 pounds |
Accident Classified As:
Power failure caused shut down of Catalytic hydrotreater, Sulfur Recovery Units # 2 and # 3 and resulted in flaring acid gas and sour water gas...and 12,681 lb SO2 emissions. ROOT CAUSE was an "errant setting on the Feeder Management Relay for Powerhouse 11. The relate was set to trip on an instantaneous over current to neutral."
No information Given.
RQ. Refinery letter states that "setting was disabled in the relay to prevent future errant power interruptions." LDEQ report states that incident will "be taken up at the next scheduled inspection. Need calculations and whether it could have been prevented the duration."
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