Case Studies training courses will present various incidents in fertilizer industry detailing the incident causes, consequences, and lessons learned. This training series introduce a process safety analysis of each incident and the impact in Operational Excellence program.

This incident is related to the sudden increase in pressure of a 20,000 ton liquid ammonia storage tank caused the roof to shell connection to rupture and the spread of ammonia vapor in the concentration of approximately 30-100 ppm in the region’s atmosphere in a radius of approximately one kilometer.