HIAD Nature Event - Ignition Source: Hot Surface
The explosion occurred in a plant for the production of butter. It was due to the rupture of a hydrogen tank, during a sterilization process at high temperature (so-called UHT treatment). Two…
Explosion in condenser area two hours after the unit tripped (due to a stator earth fault). The stator earth fault had damaged two hydrogen cooler tubes, which allowed hydrogen to pass from the…
An explosion at a refinery Hydrotreater plant involving a furnace and hydrogen caused by faulty operation. Source of ignition was furnace.
Explosion within a blast furnace occurred at the plant manufacturing iron. The event occurred at one of the blast furnace of the plant, which exploded. The explosion was so powerful that the entire…
This entry reports only the role of hydrogen in this nuclear accident. For a short description of the initial causes and the incident evolution, see at field pre-event summary and for a much more…
The explosion occurred in a copper electroplating plant test furnace when starting the operation of copper plating. EVENT DETAILS A tinned copper pipe had been placed inside another copper pipe and…
In a graphite purification workshop, the cooling circuit of an electric furnace leaks, the water decomposes in contact with materials heated to a temperature of 1,800C; the gas mixture (hydrogen,…
Explosion in a chemical manufacturing plant for the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, classified as Seveso high level, The explosion occurred in the hydrogenation reactor, when opening two…
The event started when a gasket in a water pump was blown out. The water pump was situated inside a 100 m long, 10 m wide, and 7 m high building. The pump was feeding water to a vessel containing…
A fire occurred in a hydrogen and catalyst loading lines of heavy oil unit. The most likely cause was that a hydrogen purge pipeline failure allowing hydrogen to escape. This mixed with hot oil…
A hydrogen fire occurred in a nuclear power plant outside the controlled area. The leaking point was on a pipe system of the distribution circuit of the gas network (6 bar nominal working pressure…
An incident occurred on a compressor at a refinery Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU) plant involving hydrogen. Source of ignition was hot surface.
Ejection of rotor wedge material lead to vibration induced failure of components, including hydrogen seals. Serious fire resulted from hydrogen leakage, which subsequently lead to an oil fire.…