The fire developed on a hydrogen bus during filling, and was detected due to the development of smoke and a smell of burned materials.The power cable of the compressor had overheated. Two are the…
A fire occurred on a flange of a hydrodesulfurisation unit during start-up operations. A failure of this flange caused of the leak.
In a petrochemical plant, visual inspection detects fumes under the heat insulation of a heat exchanger operating under hydrogen pressure. The first intervention team was mobilized and the unit…
The hydrogen bus was in the workshop. The fire started on the bus and expanded to the shed, which was containing also a conventional bus. Due to the presence of hydrogen, the fire brigade intervened…
The fire developed an early morning on a hydrogen bus at a refuelling station for public transport. The fire Department was called to site responding to reports of a fire on the property. A section…
a hydrogen recycle compressor shut down unexpectedly, resulting in flaring activity with visible smoke.
The broke out at a hydrogen compressor of the reforming unit of the refinery. Following the safety procedures, the emergency stop of the unit was activated and the unit was decompressed using a…
A release of hydrogen occurred during the filling of a 28 bottles rack. A worker decided to move the rack from one station to another, due to works ongoing nearby. This movement, even though the hose…
[NOTE: One source speak of a hydrogen gasometer, spanish news speak in general of gas, others of ntural gas or coal gas; considering the main product of the factory, it was chosen for this last…
A hydrogen generator overheated during testing and started a small fire in a power plant.
A hydrogen line running to a furnace caught fire at a metals plant
The fire developed on the hydrogen production unit of a subcontractor in a plant producing metallic wire articles. The cause was a malfunctioning of the hydrogen unit. The production was stopped…
A fire on one of the two hydrogen units at a gasoline refinery, hindering production.
H2 Tanker Ignites in California - Compressed hydrogen gas inside a tanker truck caught fire sending a hissing flame as high as 60 feet into the air and forcing the evacuation of a one-mile stretch…
A release of compressed hydrogen and subsequent fire occurred during the transportation of truck tractor chassis with a mounted trailer module. The tube trailer module contained 25 fully wrapped…
A fire developed on a tube trailer transporting 330 kg of compressed hydrogen, while travelling on a highway. The fire was due to a pressure relief valve of a tube releasing hydrogen. The flames…
DISCLAIMER: this event description is unsatisfactory. Details on the system and the real incident evolution are (still) missing. The incident affected a prototype light hydrogen vehicle in a hydrogen…
A road tanker carrying 125,000 cubic feet of liquid hydrogen caught fire when the tankers vent stack malfunctioned.The area within a one-mile radius was evacuated. No one was injured in the…
The methanation reactor vessel was found to be deformed and had a 3-4 inch rupture at a position corresponding to the top of the catalyst bed. It is though that the incident was caused by ethylene…
A hydrogen leak occurred on a sintering furnace in a manufactory of uranium pellets. The event happened during the restart phase after a period of maintenance. The hydrogen ignited at the location…
A truck-trailer transporting 4,000 pounds (1800 kg) of compressed hydrogen burned to ground, including the driver cabin. The driver was able to get out before it got fully engulfed. 3- to 4-feet of…
The fire broke out under the cabin of a heavy-duty vehicle transporting industrial gas cylinders (hydrogen, acetylene, helium) close to a paint company. Firefighters shelter the employees of this…
A truck driver carrying compressed gas cylinders loaded on pallets stopped on the emergency stop lane of a highway after a tyre burst. The gases transported were: 120 m of oxygen, 24 acetylene…
A fire broke out on the insulating plastic elements of an alkaline electrolyzer in a unit of a chemical plant. The shift saw the smoke from the control room. The first action was to drain the potash…
In a chemical plant, a fire broke out on a hydrogen column of an ammonia manufacturing unit. The internal security service extinguishes the fire with powder and nitrogen injection. The unit was…
A weld on a 1 inch diameter instrument tapping from a Octafiner reactor overhead line fractured, resulting in a small but intense fire, lasting about 50 minutes until the unit was nitrogen purged.The…
The boat was performing a drive test when one of the 280 lead gel batteries exploded and took fire. The local fire brigade was able to extinguish the fire but the above deck section of the boat was…
A fire on a hydrogen pipeline in a refinery.
A hydrogen leak occurred on a 50 mm pipe feeding a reactor. The leak ignited spontaneously when mixed with air. Thanks to the closing of the input and output valves, the quantity released could be…
A pipe failed, probably due to material failure, and the plant was automatically put in hot stand-by (feed and energy supply automatically cut out). The plant was gradually cooled down. After about…