Vinyl Chloride Explosion

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Vinyl chloride explosion. About 13 billion kilograms are produced annually. Pvc is used to make a variety of plastic products including pipes wire and cable coatings and packaging materials. An explosion in north china early wednesday morning that killed 23 people and injured 22 was caused by a vinyl chloride leak at a plant run by a subsidiary of the china national chemical corporation chemchina the state owned chemical manufacturer admitted in a statement friday afternoon. Vinyl chloride monomer explosion illiopolis illinois april 23 2004 open pdf 3 mb the u s.

Long storage in contact with air increases the concentration of the polyperoxides to hazardous levels mca case history 1551. Chemical safety and hazard investigation board csb determined that this incident occurred when an operator drained a full heated and pressurized polyvinyl chloride pvc reactor. Center for chemical process safety ccps 2004 10 i il 8. Vinyl chloride a colourless flammable toxic gas belonging to the family of organohalogen compounds and used principally in making polyvinyl chloride or pvc a widely used plastic with numerous applications.

Vinyl chloride is used primarily to make polyvinyl chloride pvc. The explosion forced a community evacuation and lighted fires that burned for several days at the plant. The major industrial preparation of vinyl chloride begins with ethylene and has two. It does not occur naturally and must be produced industrially for its commercial uses.

Vinyl chloride is peroxidizable. The explosion followed a release of highly flammable vinyl chloride which ignited. Vinyl chloride is an organochloride with the formula h 2 c chcl that is also called vinyl chloride monomer vcm or chloroethene this colorless compound is an important industrial chemical chiefly used to produce the polymer polyvinyl chloride pvc. Forms explosive polymeric peroxides in contact with air in the presence of any of a variety of catalysts bretherick 1979.

Vinyl chloride is a colorless gas that burns easily. Vinyl chloride is primarily used to make polyvinyl chloride to manufacture plastics.