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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 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…

Following the first flight of the Montgolfier brothers, the first severe accident with hydrogen on a Montgolfier-balloon occurred in 1785, when trying to cross the Channel from France to England. Two…

Hydrogen release and explosion due to a leak in a high pressure hydrogen storage tank, during first start-up of plant.

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…

Hydrogen release from a road truck transporting liquid hydrogen

This resulted in the destruction of the building where the explosion occurred and claimed the lives of two people. The triggering event was a blowing out of a gasket in a water pump situated in a 100…

The whole content of the rail tanker, that is 42,000 l (about 2600 kg) of liquid hydrogen, was entirely lost over a period of seven hours via the venting line of a tank. The accident occurred at a…

A 9000 gal (34 m3) LH2 storage tank exploded during repair of the vent stack. Few days before the explosion, the tank had been filled with LH2, but later on the hydrogen released and ignited at 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…

A potentially explosive situation was reported by safety inspectors at a nuclear waste tank. The waste slurry had formed a thick crust which was trapping hydrogen being continuously generated…

A pipe rupture occurred in a steam condensing line of a residual heat removal system at the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station Unit-1 (Hamaoka-1) during operation at rated power. The reactor was manually…

Compressed hydrogen was released from a storage system due to the rupture of a Bourdon-type pressure gauge.

The truck overturned and lost vacuum insulation. The hydrogen boiled and vented, but there was no ignition. The potential for fire or explosion, however, led to precautions that did cause…

This accident happened on the SS66 road and involved a trailer transporting compressed hydrogen cylinders. The 50 l cylinders were in packages of 16 cylinders each. Due to the breaking of fixing…

The event occurred just after that start-up steam was introduced into the reformer furnace inlet. At this moment an very high pressure and a single loud bang was reported by the operations personnel…

Syngas explosion at a university laboratoryThe university lab affected was investigating generation of hydrogen and methane from biomass (wooden chips). The experimental furnace was a concrete…

Transport collision between hydrogen trailer and car, without hydrogen release. (R. G. Zalosh and T. P. Short, COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HYDROGEN FIRE AND EXPLOSION INCIDENTS, Quarterly Report No. 2…

A gaseous tube trailer gone off road in a countryside area and landed on one side. All cylinders were loaded to a pressure of 200 bars. The impact with the ground has caused the rupture of a high…