Emergency Runaway Reaction - What Precedes? What Follows?

Two runaway reactions occurred in BASF within the last five years, fortunately only with property damage. In one case an intermediate product decomposed during synthesis of a chelating agent. In the second case a polymerization occurred in the semi-batch production of an Epoxy Acrylate. The course o...

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Main Author: Eckhard Fiedler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIDIC Servizi S.r.l. 2016-04-01
Series:Chemical Engineering Transactions
Online Access:https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/3346