Texas explosion
 

Fertilizer plant goes up with a bang :( (30 seconds in)

:eek: :eek: :eek: fook me!! I got my headphones in and turned up to hear what was going on, it made me jump, Jesus!

I hope the kids ears were ok and yours! (not good)

That's horrible:(

Just outside Waco, which by very odd coincidence came to an end 20 years tomorrow.

30 sec in for users in a hurry

Yes spooky coincidence......

or is it:Suspiciou

i would expect possible ruptured ear drums being that close. been tryign to figure out how far away there sat in that vid, looks like about 100-200m's the far side of the playing field next to the school, although google is not very up to date.

I'm slightly confused, these people were in and amongst, and filming

What was inevitably going to be one fook off sized bomb, that was bound to go off

From the sounds of it firefighters have died. Brave men as usual. However, a fire at a fertilizer factory with tanks full of ammonium nitrate shouldn't you just get everyone as far away as possible, including firefighters?

wasn't enevatable or they would have fully evacuated and just let it blow, latest reports seem to say was a fire with fire fighters trying to put it out. Suposedly the water came into contact with a chemical it shouldn't have and it blew.

Okaaay....If you say so. :Suspiciou

This morning's news said it was an ammonia tank that blew. You could see it burning, yet ammonia isn't flammable.

I used to work at a chemical plant that produced fertiliser as a by-product. One of the reactors we had contained ammonium nitrITE, under pressure and at fairly high temperature. It was very unstable, and had to be sampled and analysed every 30 minutes.

The sample number, when it came in, was: R101.........

The name of the plant, (for those that remember)? Nypro.

Unfortunately Just like 911 firefighters and police run towards the disaster not away. God bless em

Remember this one ?

It was anhydrous ammonia, which is flammable.

Looked nasty :eek:

What happened ? I was barely a child

"....The name of the plant, (for those that remember)? Nypro......"

That would be 'Flixbourough' ? -- remember seeing it on telly in the 70's. Was it one of the biggest ever in this country..?

Working in a chemicals plant on a refinery and seeing videos like this scares the crap out of me. When you see the blast zones for blevys its a worrying thought.

My thoughts go out to those involved :(

The plant was very near a school and town , bit mad IMO.

There are houses within the blast radius of our site. Not sure how far away the nearest school is but its not over the road like the one above.

some would say, oh never mind

anyway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege

Presumably they'll never know if there could have been any bomb

It's what we in the industry call a BLEVE, a Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion caused by a pressurised vessel exceeding it's boiling point then rupturing releasing it's normally highly explosive contents which will rapidly ignite whilst expanding.

It's was always a worry when we were welding on the LNG tanks in Pembroke as they held around 46,000 ton of liquified natural gas.

Did you see this one that was doing the rounds earlier this year?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=4233937722060

Hoooooo......llllllyyyyyyyy.......shhhhhiiittttt !

Thought everybody had seen that one by now, bit of a big bang lol

Yes, my vote would be to get everyone the **** away pronto and let it go up. My thoughts are with the families of those affected.

Yes seen that one Dunk. We get all the saftey flashes from the US chemical safey board.

Frightening :eek: