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The last flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger ended 73 seconds after the launch in an explosive burn of hydrogen and oxygen propellants that destroyed the External Tank and exposed the Orbiter to…
An explosion occurs in the oxygen gas holder in an electrolysis plant. The explosion is due to the entry of hydrogen in the oxygen gas holder.The dome of the gas holder and the collar were blown away.
Hydrogen gas leaking from a tanker truck came in contact with a spark, causing an explosion at a semiconductor plant.
The release and fire occurred during what appeared to be a normal operation in a reactor section of a Residue Hydrotreater Unit, when an eight-inch pipe connected to a heat exchanger failed at the…
The explosion followed a hydrogen leak on a unit conditioning hydrogen.The leak was caused by the mechanical rupture of the membrane of a pressure release device which was part of a pressure…
The failure of a high pressure hydrogen-based synthetic gas feed line to the ammonia converter produced a sudden explosion followed by a severe fire. One of the operators was fatally injured. The…
A dual phase hydrogen tanker was expected to refil the storage of arefulein gstation for buses. Due to the failure of the a bolt of the tanker pump, the fefeulling could not take place. This resulted…
FCEV drove over a high bump and damaged its lower front side.
The FCEV was travelling at approx. 75 km/h (80 km/h speed limit) on a straight, downhill part of the road. Another vehicles was waiting at a STOP sign on the right side, did not see the incoming FCEV…
Fire in chemical plant (Seveso-classified)The fire developed at the top of the flare stack of a during a violent thunderstorm.The flare stack is used to discharge hydrogen produced by the…
A fire in a leaking hydrogen unit at a 220,000-barrel oil sands plant temporarily cut production nearly 80 percent.
An operator had just replaced the ignition port cover on a hydrochloric acid plant burner. Normal start-up was continued by closing the drain valve in the product run off line and opening the…
The explosion and fire happened in a diesel hydro-treatment unit used to desulfurise raw diesel be means of hydrogen.The facility was expected to begin full commercial operations later in 2020.
The ignition of a hydrogen leak occurred at a semitrailer connected to a pressure reducing station, while waiting a transfer. The alert was given by personnel of the company cafeteria located nearby…
In a refinery, a fire occurred at a new reactor for the vacuum distillate hydro-desulfurization unit. Internal gas (hydrogen, hydrocarbon, etc.) blew from a flange of upper piping in the reactor. It…
Hydrogen leakage occurred on a pipe flange in an ammonia synthesis unit. A fire started immediately, which was taken under a control before the arrival of firefighters.
Two employees were performing works on hydrogen piping (H2) in the chlorate production unit of a chemical plant when an ignited leak of H2 occurred. The operator initiated the emergency plan and…