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HIAD Nature of the Consequences: Fire


The event occurred on vent stack of an ammonia synthesis unit. The release of the gas was more specifically on the water purge line or the hydraulic guard of the vet stack. The process gas…
The fire occurred on the tube plate gaskets of 3 of the 4 exchangers loaded with catalytic reforming effluent. The fuel (500C and p=30 bar) was a mixture of 30% hydrocarbons and 70% hydrogen. After…
Release of gas from a coking plant on a 20 000 cubic meters gas holder which ignited causing a fire. The accident took place during repair works. The gas was made of 65 % of hydrogen , 25 % of…
As the airship approached the docking mast, it performed a sharp turn to face into the wind, which was shifting. The engines were run at full speed astern for about a minute to slow the airship. Dust…
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…
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…
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…
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