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Natural gas line failure: Agrium Fort Saskatchewan Nitrogen Operations
Author(s) -
McConnell Mark,
Timbres Donald H.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
process safety progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1547-5913
pISSN - 1066-8527
DOI - 10.1002/prs.680210405
Subject(s) - natural gas , nitrogen gas , line (geometry) , corrosion , environmental science , shutdown , waste management , petroleum engineering , engineering , forensic engineering , nitrogen , nuclear engineering , materials science , chemistry , metallurgy , geometry , mathematics , organic chemistry
Abstract While restarting an ammonia plant after a shutdown, the pipe line supplying natural gas to the sulfur removal section preheat coil in the primary reformer convection section ruptured. High‐pressure natural gas from the rupture ignited causing significant fire damage. The gas line rupture was determined to have been caused by corrosion. This paper examines the cause of the gas line failure and the corrective actions taken to prevent a reoccurrence.