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Table 3.1 Process Hazards (continued)
FORM OF
ENERGY
ASSOCIATED HAZARD(S)
TYPICAL ACCIDENTAL EVENT(S)
Inadvertent mixing or contact with incompatible
CHEMICAL
Other increased reactivity
ENERGY
material; heat, pressure, or toxic gas generation
(continued)
Reduced chemical reactivity
Personnel entry into confined space with
(inert material)
reduced oxygen level
THERMAL
Elevated temperature
Hot material release
ENERGY
Contact with hot surface
Steam explosion or equivalent
Containment rupture from thermal expansion of
blocked-in fluid
Reduced temperature
Cryogenic material release
Fracture of embrittled containment
Volume of compressible fluid
PRESSURE-
Tank or enclosure rupture
VOLUME
held at elevated pressure
High-velocity leak or spray
ENERGY
Liquefied material stored under
Rapid phase transition (boiling-liquid-
pressure
expanding-vapor explosion or BLEVE)
Volume of compressible fluid
Tank or enclosure collapse
held under vacuum
Elevation of process material
POTENTIAL
Toppling over of stacked drums
(POSITIONAL)
above a reference level
Shifting of granular storage piles
ENERGY
Fluid surge from failed container
Falling material from spill/overflow
Overpressure or overtemperature by dead-
KINETIC
Moving process material
ENERGY
headed pumping
(MATERIAL
Impingement by process material
TRANSFER)
Water hammer damage
Elevated electromagnetic
ELECTRO-
radiation levels
associated with process
MAGNETIC
Elevated voltage
Electrical shock from process using electricity,
ELECTRICAL
such as electrolysis of brine
ENERGY
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