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Accident # | 78175 |
State Police # | 05-02346 |
Accident Date | 2005-04-12 |
Report Date | 2005-04-19 |
Follow-up Date | 0000-00-00 |
Follow-up: | No |
Pollutant | Duration | Point Source | Greenhouse Gas | Criteria Pollutant | Ozone forming chemical | Amount of Release |
Hydrocarbon | 72 hrs 0m | Y-2 Cooling Tower (Ep-152) | NO | NO | YES | 2,930.0 pounds |
Accident Classified As:
The release occurred over a 3 day period due to leaking exchangers. The exchangers are in CatPoly depropanizer overhead service.
Once the leaking exchangers were pinpointed through sampling efforts, the Depropanizer Tower was shutdown and blocked in to stop the leak and make repairs to the exchangers. The incident was found to be unpreventable as the leas was not foreseen (a rou
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