<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>T A hazardous incident occurred in the summer of 2011 within an industrial platform belonging to a thermal-power plant located in the south-western part of Romania. The event which affected the wet chimney of the gas desulphurisation installation was a fire, triggered at a height of 54 m. It was liquidated by the team for emergency situations, but there occurred important material losses. There weren’t any human losses. In order to elucidate the objective and subjective causes which led to the occurrence of this event, there were carried out researches, there were made assumptions, there were studied the ignition sources, there were carried out tests on work materials, whose modelling provided the mechanism of the fire, and their analyses provided the result of the investigations.</p></abstract>

T A hazardous incident occurred in the summer of 2011 within an industrial platform belonging to a thermal-power plant located in the south-western part of Romania. The event which affected the wet chimney of the gas desulphurisation installation was a fire, triggered at a height of 54 m. It was liquidated by the team for emergency situations, but there occurred important material losses. There weren’t any human losses. In order to elucidate the objective and subjective causes which led to the occurrence of this event, there were carried out researches, there were made assumptions, there were studied the ignition sources, there were carried out tests on work materials, whose modelling provided the mechanism of the fire, and their analyses provided the result of the investigations.

Investigation Of The Causes Which Led To The Occurrence Of A Fire In A Gas Desulphurisation Installation – Case Study –

National Institute for Research and Development in Mine Safety and Protection to Explosion – INSEMEX Petroşani, City Petroşani, Country Romania

Acta Universitatis Cibiniensis. Technical Series

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T A hazardous incident occurred in the summer of 2011 within an industrial platform belonging to a thermal-power plant located in the south-western part of...

Investigation Of The Causes Which Led To The Occurrence Of A Fire In A Gas Desulphurisation Installation – Case Study –

Published Online: Sep 23, 2015

Page range: 182 - 187

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/aucts-2015-0050

Keywords
absorber, fire, flammable materials, gas desulphurisation, worker

© Tomescu Cristian et al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Investigation Of The Causes Which Led To The Occurrence Of A Fire In A Gas Desulphurisation Installation – Case Study –

Published Online: Sep 23, 2015

Page range: 182 - 187

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/aucts-2015-0050

Keywordsabsorber, fire, flammable materials, gas desulphurisation, worker

© Tomescu Cristian et al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
absorber, fire, flammable materials, gas desulphurisation, worker