Recovery Recovering
During a startup of a Recovery Boiler at International Paper’s Vicksburg Linerboard Mill in Mississippi, after the annual outage, water entered the furnace proper causing a smelt water explosion which killed one person and injured 17. Four of the injured are in critical condition in the Augusta, Georgia burn unit.
My guess is they worked on the NCG (waste gas) system and it was full of water prior to startup. An incident like that occured at a Recovery Boiler in Brazil a number of years ago.