A company news release about the explosion at their Geismar plant indicates the following:
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"According to the preliminary findings three main factors in combination with one another contributed to the incident:
> The unexpected presence of liquid hydrocarbons in the reboiler in standby mode
> The introduction of heat into this standby reboiler
> The pressure relief system was isolated from the reboiler which was in standby mode"
Read the news release in this link.
It is heartening to see this news release on the company's website itself. In India, we are still waiting news about the investigation about the cooling tower explosion in a refinery!!
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