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re: This is a serious, developing situation in Garden Grove, Orange County, California.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 9:49 am to ChatGPT of LA
Posted on 5/24/26 at 9:49 am to ChatGPT of LA
Probably runaway reaction
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Posted on 5/24/26 at 9:58 am to fightin tigers
Can you explain? I see the tank size as being smaller. Why can't they evacuate the threatened tanks? Off load them and move away?
Or is this heat a chemical reaction within the tank? If so, why?
Or is this heat a chemical reaction within the tank? If so, why?
Posted on 5/24/26 at 10:05 am to ChatGPT of LA
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Or is this heat a chemical reaction within the tank? If so, why?
Would be my thought. I have no specifics on this chemical or what happened though.
Basically the catalyst was added and now the reaction is happening. Seems to be exothermic so heat is being released. Could be some sort of oxidizing reaction and is just feeding itself or there was enough catalyst intoduced to keep the reaction going for a while. Eventually the reaction will use up all the catalyst and they just have to pull heat away until that happens.
This post was edited on 5/24/26 at 10:07 am
Posted on 5/24/26 at 10:22 am to Obtuse1
"less than 1 cp". Sure unreacted, pure MMA low viscosity. MMA that had a thermal kick, in a large volume unstirred tank, for 4 days is no longer pure MMA. Its now peanut butter consistency
Posted on 5/24/26 at 10:31 am to ChatGPT of LA
From what I read, the tank valves are FUBAR
Can’t open tank, can’t release pressure. I’m guessing this tank needs regular releases.
Looks like this place is on the edge of a small industrial park and across the street from a neighborhood. Wonder who was there first?
Can’t open tank, can’t release pressure. I’m guessing this tank needs regular releases.
Looks like this place is on the edge of a small industrial park and across the street from a neighborhood. Wonder who was there first?
Posted on 5/24/26 at 10:35 am to LSUFanHouston
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Looks like this place is on the edge of a small industrial park and across the street from a neighborhood. Wonder who was there first?
Dear god the houses around there are (were) expensive.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 10:36 am to Ailsa
Wow this is a big deal!!!
Posted on 5/24/26 at 10:38 am to Trevaylin
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"less than 1 cp". Sure unreacted, pure MMA low viscosity. MMA that had a thermal kick, in a large volume unstirred tank, for 4 days is no longer pure MMA. Its now peanut butter consistency
Who would use a 34,000 tank (I assume atmostpheric with no jacket or coils) as a reactor? I would think at best for a facility this size, the reactions are in 10,000 gal or less sized reactors with a way to control temperature via heating or coolling.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 10:45 am to CitizenK
From my understanding, these tank have an internal cooling coil system (assuming chilled water pumped through coils) and somehow the cooling system failed. Not sure why they don't have some type of emergency block valves to bypass and have ability to free flow cold water through them in an emergency. You'd think this would be on a double/triple redundancy safety system, but I'm not familiar with exact process. As stated above, once that happened the MMA started to solidify or gel and rendered the valves inoperable to evacuate material from the tank.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 12:07 pm to CitizenK
The video of the tank looks like a flat roof storage tank not intended to be a reactor.
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