An independent federal agency that investigates major chemical incidents released an update June 18 to its ongoing investigation into the Givaudan Sense Colour explosion that struck Louisville's ...

The chemical industry has been well aware of the risks of the type of thermal runaway reaction that forced 50,000 people from their homes in Orange County last weekend, reviving years of warnings from ...

In response to the article "Runaway Reaction," I agree that chemical engineering curricula should include reactive chemical education (C&EN, Sept. 21, 2009, page 8). I'm a chemical engineering major ...

A chemical company's inability to control a chemical reaction and an erroneous accident emergency plan led to injuries of 17 police and ambulance personnel and the evacuation of more than 100 homes ...

A large explosion and fire that took the lives of two workers at the Bayer CropScience plant in August 2008 was caused by a thermal runaway reaction during the production of an insecticide. The event ...

A new method of evaluating process hazards combines experimental thermal analysis, computational chemistry methods, and thermodynamic-energy relationships. This results in a better understanding of ...

Allan Chaidez and his father, Guillermo Chaidez, return home to Stanton on Monday after the chemical crisis at an aerospace company in Garden Grove forced them to evacuate. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles ...