Distant replay: What can reinvestigation of a 40-year-old incident tell you? A look at Eastman Chemical's 1960 aniline plant explosion
Distant replay: What can reinvestigation of a 40-year-old incident tell you? A look at Eastman Chemical's 1960 aniline plant explosion
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10.1002/prs.10029
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2004-09-01
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Lodal, PN
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Lodal, PN
1960年10月4日，伊士曼化工公司遭遇了其83年历史上最严重的事故，当时一家苯胺制造设施发生爆炸。爆炸造成16人死亡，300多人受伤。本文运用史料和现代分析方法，对这一事件及其后果进行了分析。这些结果为提出的技术和文化安全问题提供了有用的见解，并提供了可应用于当前流程的有价值的信息。仔细的分析，即使是在事实发生数年后，也可以揭示新的信息，也可以强化已知的信息。例如，残留物曲线映射技术的使用，结合三元液液相图，揭示了1960年没有预料到的一系列情况。由于这起事故，伊士曼建立了一个过程安全审查委员会的结构，一直延续到今天。这种有条理的做法的结果之一是，在过去40年里，严重事件的数量大幅减少。(C)2004年美国化学工程师学会。
On October 4, 1960, Eastman Chemical Company suffered the worst accident in its 83-year history, when an aniline manufacturing facility exploded. Sixteen people were killed, and more than 300 injured, as a result of the blast. This paper analyzes the incident and its aftermath using both historical records and modem analytical techniques. The results provide useful insight into both the technical and cultural safety issues raised, as well as valuable information that can be applied to current processes. Careful analysis, even years after the fact, can reveal new information, as well as reinforce that which is already known. For example, the used of residue curve mapping techniques, combined with the ternary liquid-liquid phase diagram revealed a combination of circumstances that was not anticipated in 1960. As a result of this accident, Eastman instituted a Process Safety Review Committee structure that has continued to this day. One of the results of this structured approach has been an order-of-magnitude reduction in serious incidents, sustained over a four-decade period. (C) 2004 American Institute of Chemical Engineers.