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[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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A fire occurred on a valve of a hydrodesulfurisation unit in a refinery. A cable gland was modified. Steaming wreaths are permanently installed.

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.

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…

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.…

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…