The incident occurred in the turbine-generator hall of a nuclear power plant. Hydrogen leaked from the alternator and ignited.The hydrogen line was purged to stop the leak. The plant employees were…
Around 4 a.m., a major leak occurred at the outlet of the diesel hydrodesulfurization furnace in a refinery. The goal of this unit is to lower the sulfur content of diesel fuels produced in other…
In a petrochemical plant, a fire occurred on the methanation unit (95% H2 + 5% CO -> CH4 + H2 + H2O) of a steam cracker. A seal break on a flange of the circuit caused of the accident. No…
On April 29, 1991, a nuclear Power Plant experienced a main generator hydrogen fire. Although a senior reactor operator (SRO) and auxiliary operators from another shift were available immediately,…
A truckload of hydrogen cylinders caught fire at plant producing artificial sweetener.
A fire occurred on a valve of a hydrodesulfurisation unit in a refinery. A cable gland was modified. Steaming wreaths are permanently installed.
While filling a 9 litre gas cylinder with pressurised hydrogen in the hydrogen storage area, a blast occurred which destroyed the low pressure gauge, followed by a jet fire which damaged the…
A man was burned when a fire broke out as a hydrogen cylinder was being changed in a governmental research centre. It was reported that the fire was started by a spark from a wrench. The sprinkler…
A flash fire enveloped a hydrogen compressor at a refinery.
A triangle flask exploded during a science-class experiment where diluted hydrochloric acid was made to react with zinc to generate hydrogen, at a junior high school. Injures were caused by glass…
A hydrogen and batteries driven aircraft was forced to land after a flight incident. According to the aircraft company the aircraft was forced to an emergency landing, but landed normally on its…
A hydrogen and fuel cells bus hit by a car during the turn to the left into a street. Damage on the left side.
A hydroge nand fuel cell bus was hit by private car in the roundabout at the main station, damage on the right side.
While the FC bus was standing at its regular bus stop at the main bus terminal another bus drove into the rear of the FC Bus causing damages to the rear hood affecting the protective cap and the high…
According to the media news, the accident involved an explosion of a fuel cell driven forklift during driving, resulting in an employee's death and 6 light injured other employees. The fire did not…
The driver of a fuel cells post bus hit a parked car
A fire broke out affecting the heavy fuel purification plant of the refinery.The incident could have originated by the failure of one of the following plant components:- pipes leading to the pressure…
Furnace tube leak caused excessive heat on H2 tube causing rupture
Overpressure caused a cylinder head of a gas compressor to fail causing release of hydrogen followed by a fire during the start-up of the compressor after maintenance.
In a plastics production plant, a pallet containing 7 cylinders of nitrogen and 1 cylinder of hydrogen fell from a truck traveling in a logistics zone. The driver stopped the vehicle, cut off the…
The gas leak containing hydrogen (H2) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) occurred at the upper isolation valve located at a high-pressure separator (300 bar) of an oil production unit in a refinery.…
Three workers were asphyxiated when argon and hydrogen gas leaked from pipes they were installing on an aromatics plant being built on a cracking complex.
A fire started in a refinery's gas oil desulfurization unit. The purpose of this unit is to separate sulfur from hydrocarbons and to do so, the latter are raised to 340C in the presence of hydrogen…
the hazmat crews evacuated the workers at the Atmel building and established a safe zone. The crews used liquid nitrogen. The biggest danger was the chance of explosion
The event took place in the on one out of the seven reactors for ammonia synthesis. The day of the accident, preparation works for the decennial pneumatic test (previous pneumatic test was carried…
During the isomerization of wax in a lube oil plant, the high pressure reactor ruptured, releasing its contents. The released gas ignited and a fire developed in the plant area where operators and…
On a highway, a truck loaded with 400 gas cylinders crashed at night for an undetermined cause against a concrete wall and overturned. It slipped 150 m, before several 200 litre cylinders of hydrogen…
At around 9:15 a.m., during a routine inspection, a flame was observed at the bottom flange of a reactor in a refinery. A few moments later, sensors near the leak detected a rise in temperature.The…
During a work tour on a refinery, an employee noticed a fire at the level of a flange at the inlet of the grille of an exchanger, located at the outlet of a reactor of the catalytic reforming unit.…
A diesel and gas leak (H2, H2S, CH4) occurred in a hydrodesulfurization unit (2,200 t/d). The leak location was on one of the boiler valves of the stabilization column. The released mixture (390 C /…
