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Formosa Plastics Propylene Explosion
The Formosa Plastics propylene explosion was a propylene release and explosion that occurred on October 6, 2005, in the Olefins II Unit at the Formosa Plastics plant in Point Comfort, Texas, United States. The subsequent fire burned for five days. Formosa Plastics Point Comfort facility The Point Comfort facility is the largest Formosa Plastics plant in the United States. Opened in 1983, it covers 1,800 acres (7.3 km²) and employs 330 full-time employees and 3,500 contract workers, 2,500 of which are construction, and 1,000 are residential workers. Among the employees are 120 personnel making up the plant's Emergency Response Team (ERT) whose members are trained in hazardous material emergencies and fire fighting. There are 20 operating units on the plant producing a variety of petroleum and plastic products. Olefins II Unit The Olefins II Unit uses furnaces to convert naphtha or natural gas into a hydrocarbon mixture containing methane, ethane, ethylene, propylene, and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The island of Taiwan, formerly known to Westerners as Formosa, has an area of and makes up 99% of the land under ROC control. It lies about across the Taiwan Strait from the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China, Mainland China. The East China Sea is to the north of the island, the Philippine Sea to its east, the Luzon Strait directly to its south, and the South China Sea to its southwest. The ROC also controls a number of List of islands of Taiwan, smaller islands, including the Penghu archipelago in the Taiwan Strait, Kinmen and Matsu Islands, Matsu in Fuchien Province, Republic of China, Fuchien near the Mainland coast, as well as Pratas Island, Pratas and Taiping Island, Taiping in the South China Sea. Geologically, the main island comprises a tilted fault block, characterized by the contrast between the eastern two-thirds, consisting mostly of five rugged mountain ranges running par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
