HIAD Nature of the Consequences: Fire

A hydrogen release and subsequent fire occurred at meter station of a pipeline transporting hydrogen to a refinery. Local refinery emergency response team responded and secured the area. The pipeline…

A fire broke out on the worlds first hydrogen carrier vessel shortly before setting sail from Australia to Japan carrying the worlds first international shipment of liquefied hydrogen. A flame was…

Hydrogen leaked and ignited on a cell in the sodium chlorate (NaClO3) workshop of a chlorinated products plant.There were no victims and no damage to the environment. On-site firefighters controlled…

A lorry crashed into a hydrogen tube trailer with considerable speed on the highway A1 near Cologne. The lorry driver was killed. Gas escaped from tubes and valves of three of the nine tanks and was…

A Worner 1000 STU gas balloon, of German registry D-OAGH, piloted by a commercial pilot was substantially damaged during landing, when the hydrogen-filled envelope came in contact with a power line,…

An incident occurred on a compressor at a refinery Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU) plant involving hydrogen. Source of ignition was hot surface.

The event occurred in a university research building dedicated to the study of the take-off of space launchers . An operator gave the alarm during the hydrogen pressure pre-setting phase. he had seen…

An isomerization unit of a refinery was affected. The release was caused by the mechanical failure of one of the two compressors working in parallel at a pressure of 20 bars, conveying the gas…

A jet fire occurred on the ammonia production unit, caused by a leak on a hydrogen pipe. No victims.

The fire took place during maintenance works in one out of the three gas extractors of the coke process line. Main cause was displacement of a flange which allowed the entrance of flammable mixture…

A leak and fire occurred in a hydrogen compression section of a hydrocracker.

At about 9:50 a.m., a lightning strike ignited hydrogen exiting a stack in a chemical factory. This hydrogen, produced by the chlorine electrolysis cells, is conveyed to the stack when the…

Motorway accident which involved a large quantity of vehicles and a gaseous tube trailer which transported gas hydrogen in pressure. Some cars were burning under the back part of the gaseous tube…

In 1987, well diggers had drilled a well for water, but had given up on one dry borehole at a depth of 108 meters. According to the source reported in the References, wind was coming out of the hole…

In a paper plant, an explosion occurs in a paper pulp tank while 2 workers were carrying out pipes cutting with a grinder on the roof of the tank. Detailed analysis of the event was performed by two…

The utility production facilities (electricity, water, air, and steam) at a refinery were isolated from the power grid and switched to two turbine generators in anticipation of a storm. At 9:50 p.m…

The event occurred at the flanges on the outlet of a desulfurization reactor, which was working under about 300 degrees C The flanges and bolts were cooled down by a large amount of rainwater which…

The fire developed on one of two naphtha crackers The rupture of the reactor made that the hydrogen, petroleum products and the pyrophoric catalyst came outside the reactor. The mixture immediately…

Hydrogen leak from a valve, with delayed ignition and consequent engulfing fire.The bonnet of a 2 inch valve on hydrogen quench line of a lube oil hydrotreater began to leak.The operative conditions…

A tractor - semitrailer with horizontally mounted cylinders filled with compressed hydrogen struck a northbound pickup truck that had veered in front of it.The tractor-semitrailer then went out of…