{"title":"An accident at a lithuanian fertilizer plant","authors":"B. Andersson","doi":"10.1002/PRSB.720100409","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"On March 20, 1989 a tank started to leak spilling large quantities of ammonia which evaporated and caught fire. A layer of warm, unstable ammonia that had accumulated at the bottom of the tank exploded because of the hydrostatic pressure.","PeriodicalId":364732,"journal":{"name":"Plant\\/operations Progress","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Plant\\/operations Progress","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PRSB.720100409","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
On March 20, 1989 a tank started to leak spilling large quantities of ammonia which evaporated and caught fire. A layer of warm, unstable ammonia that had accumulated at the bottom of the tank exploded because of the hydrostatic pressure.