HIAD Quality Indicator: 5
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…
While filling a 9 litre gas cylinder with pressurised hydrogen in the hydrogen storage area, a blast occurred which destroyed the low pressure gauge, followed by a jet fire which damaged the…
Hydrogen ignition during welding on a VSC-24 spent fuel cask Pursuant to 10 CFR 72.210 - fuel in an independent spent fuel storage installation at its Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant. The inspection…
A shift supervisor received severe burns and later died after a flexible hose used to transfer hydrogen to the catalytic reformer was over-pressurised and caught fire.Hydrogen is supplied from three…
The event occurred in a support building at a test stand complex. The explosion destroyed two support buildings and severely damaged a large amount of equipment. No one was injured.Gaseous hydrogen…
An explosion at a linear alkylbenzene (LAB) plant caused substantial damage to the facility and injured five workers. Production remains down, and the company has sent a letter to customers declaring…
The hydrogen buffer tanks that exploded were part of an experimental facility experimenting generation of renewable hydrogen from a water electrolyzer coupled to solar panels.The three hydrogen tanks…
An open backed truck was delivering various industrial gases to sites. At the site of the explosion a rack of argon gas bottles was being delivered to a laboratory in the building adjacent to the…
The event occurred at manhole cover of a of a pilot plant reactor where hydrogenation had been performed in a hydrochloric aqueous solution. The reactor had been flushed three times with nitrogen (i.…
The explosion occurred when a spark from welding equipment ignited flammable vapours from a 415,000-gallon (ca. 1.5 million of litres) sulfuric acid storage tank at the refinery.The investigation…
The plant was operating at 92% power when a ground fault on a land steam exhauster caused the supply breaker to a motor control centre (MCC) to trip. This supply breaker could not be reclosed. The…
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…
The vent occurred outside a fuel cells manufacturing facility. While preparing for transfer of liquid hydrogen from tanker truck to storage tank, a release of hydrogen occurred, which vaporized into…
A malfunction in the turbine generator resulted in a fire and caused the operators to manually shut the reactor. The turbine generator transforms steam into electricity and hydrogen is used as a…
On February 3, 1994, a control room operator at Surry Power Station, Unit 1, observed pressure spikes on the pressurizer level instruments. At the same time, a loud rumbling sound was heard in the…
A hydrogen fuel tank release caused a fire at an AC Transit fuel station, prompting authorities to, as a precaution, evacuate several businesses and a high school and to close a number of…
The event occurred in a bus garage when carrying out the purging process of the hydrogen cylinders. This process was executed via an electronic control system, but it was found that one cylinder…
Early in the morning of (3:00 AM), the personnel on one of the companies on site reported a potential pipeline leak just south of the valve station. The potential leak was discovered due to bubbling…
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 50-litre standard hydrogen gas cylinder was temporarily placed and used in a laboratory. The hydrogen gas was used for a flame ionization detector (FID) in gas chromatography (GC) instrument. The…