A continuous explosion at a chemical plant in Nanjing has been extinguished

China Coatings network
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June 12 at 21:15 pm, Nanjing Chemical Park Dna chemical plant fire. The scene of a number of explosions, surrounding residential houses are felt. The fire department then rushed to the scene. It was confirmed that an explosion occurred at the scene for the ethylene oxide device and ignited three alcohol tanks in the surrounding area. At about 21:15 on the 12th, an explosion occurred in the middle tank area of the Dna Chemical Co., Ltd. ethylene glycol butyl ether device in Nanjing Chemical Park, causing three of the six adjacent tanks to catch fire, each of which had a capacity of about 1000 cubic meters and an open fire burning height of about 15 meters. After the accident, Nanjing Fire Command Center mobilized 7 fire squadrons 30 fire engines 151 people, Yangzi Fire Brigade 4 squadrons rushed to the scene to rescue. At 2:55 a.m. on the 13th, the open fire at the scene was completely extinguished. Since the fire occurred at a chemical plant, and because ethylene oxide in the device that initially exploded the fire was toxic, whether fire and explosion would cause harmful substances to leak has attracted the attention of nearby residents. Sun Jiaxing, general manager of Denner Chemical Plant, said: "The middle tank is butyl ether, there are butyl ether these mixtures, butyl ether is
coating solvent
, combustion produces carbon dioxide and water, is harmless to the human body." According to reporters, the fire at the Dena chemical plant is the second chemical plant explosion in Nanjing in the past two months. The Nanjing Yangzi Petrochemical Plant, also located north of the Yangtze River, exploded at around 6 a.m. on April 21 this year, causing minor injuries to one person and not affecting the atmosphere or water. With the arrival of the summer high temperature period, production safety accidents into a multiple period, prone period, less than two months, Nanjing, two chemical plant explosions, which had to attract the attention of enterprises and government departments.