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A pick-up truck pulling a trailer carrying compressed hydrogen crashed in Ohio yesterday. The hydrogen leaked and ignited, producing flames ten metres into the air. The hydrogen quantity transported…
The leak occurred on a process pipe of a pressurized at 17 bar and located 3.5 m from the ground The gaseous mixture composed of hydrogen, methane and hydrogen sulfide (density: 0.6) was released to…
An in-line inspection of the hydrogen pipeline was being conducted and prior to the last run of the in-line inspection tool (mfl), hydrogen gas was released and ignited from a blind flange connection…
Car driver accidentally opened his car door damaging the bus (front, right side, body and windowpane)
Collision between a hydrogen and fuel cells bust and a private car. The car was driving out from a private street and hit the bus. The bus damage is on the right side, behind the rear tires.
(WARNING, UNCLEAR IF H2 WAS INVOLVED)The explosion occurred in a chemical reactor tank of a plant (SEVESO low level) manufacturing products for medical imaging. According to the investigation, the…
Collision between a hydrogen and fuel cells bus and a private car. The car was overtaking the bus and damaged its rear, left side.
A fire started on the brakes of a truck carrying hydrogen. Due to the risk of extension of the fire to the hydrogen, the fire brigade install an emergency area until the fire is extinguished.There…
The truck was carrying cylinders of nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), hydrogen (H2) and acetylene on a national road. It struck the right protection, then the concrete-reinforced central division, and…
Due to the road accident there was the formation of a fire that involved the hydrogen tube trailer and some other vehicles (involved in the incident).Moreover due to the crash there was the formation…
The HRS canopy was lower than the forecourt canopy. heavy duty vehicles were not noticing the issue and hitting the HRS canopy assuming same height.The canopy has now been repaired twice, and the…
The incident aoccurred ina biogas-fed Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Stationary system, working in CHP mode.A sudden stop of the biogas feeding line caused the safety shutdown of the plant (SOFC module).The…
Following the breakdown of a piston rod, a mixture of hydrogen and light hydrocarbons was released from the fresh hydrogen compressor of an oil refinery. The rod broke down because of stress…
The incident occurred at a fuel cells manufacturing plant. The tanker was preparing to transfer liquid hydrogen to the company hydrogen bulk storage tank. During backing, it impacted an industrial…
A gaseous mixture of hydrogen (H2), methane (CH4) and ethane (CH3-CH3) at 54 bar was cooled in a heat exchanger upstream of a hydrogen purification system. The accident started with a double…
The syngas leak (hydrogen + methane) occurred at exit of the ammonia production reactor and led to an explosion followed by a fire.The start point of the sequence of events was the syngas at the…
The incident occurred in a hydrocracker unit of the refinery. A control valve on the liquid line between the high- and the low-pressure separators was opened in error and the liquid allowed to drain…
A fire in an oil refineryThe fire broke out together with an explosion noise from the heavy oil direct desulfurization system of the height of about 20 m. The fire burned a part of the system…
An explosion followed by a fire occurred at a tar precipitator of gas treatment of a coke oven. The extractors were manually activated. Ten minutes later, the operator activates the internal…
SUMMARYThe explosion occurred in a catalyst regenerator of the catalytic cracking unit in a fluidized bed during a technical shutdown. A few seconds later, a second explosion is perceived, it is the…