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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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AIDIC Servizi S.r.l.
2016-04-01
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| Series: | Chemical Engineering Transactions |
| Online Access: | https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/3346 |
| Summary: | 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 of events and causes of the incidents will be presented in detail and lessons learned will be discussed. |
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| ISSN: | 2283-9216 |