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15. Is there a Danger of Explosion at the Blue Tower?
When inflammable and explosive gases are handled in a plant, particularly hydrogen, danger of explosion exists in general. With the Blue Tower, however, this danger is rather small in comparison with other gasification plants: The Blue Tower will be implemented always as an open air plant; The Blue Tower wall is formed by a light and air permeable, blue and rather thin sheet material e.g. perforated steel plate or fabric. On the top, the Blue Tower is completely open to the air. This design philosophy makes the Blue Tower working like a chimney. Permanent draught prevents ignitable gas or dust/air mixtures to be formed or collected. As soon as the Blue Tower is in operation and the reaction vessels get slightly warmer at their exterior shell, this draught motion is started and maintained as long as the process is running. It is self-evident that near the Blue tower as a permanently technically sealed plant, accumulations of ignitable mixtures should not occur under normal conditions. In this way, the safety philosophy of the Blue Tower is even redundant.
