HIAD Specific Application Supply Chain Stage: Hydrogen Production

The incident took place on the reforming furnace unit of the plant. Around 23:30 pm, during a normal inspection tour, an operator detected a fire on a section of a steam line. He immediately informed…

In a high pressure gas plant, hydrogen gas leaked through a flange on a non return valve located on a hydrogen inlet of a reactor. The leaking gas ignited.

The accident happened in a refinery unit, constructed ten years before. A pigtail ruptured in a steam reformer for the production of hydrogen, and caused a major fire, which destroyed most of the…

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…

A hydrogen generator overheated during testing and started a small fire in a power 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…

A fire on one of the two hydrogen units at a gasoline refinery, hindering production.

A fire broke out on the insulating plastic elements of an alkaline electrolyzer in a unit of a chemical plant. The shift saw the smoke from the control room. The first action was to drain the potash…

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 explosion occurred on a unit producing hydrogen for the nearby refinery.The following fire was extinguished in 10 minutes by the public service fire brigade. Two workers were lightly injured.

The incident consisted of a leakage of potassium hydroxide solution (KOH) from an alkaline electrolyzer in a renewable hydrogen production plant. One webpage news reported that smoke formation…

Fire due to hydrogen gas leakage.

The accidental hydrogen release occurred when testing the storage system connected to a PEM electrolyzer. The leak test consisted in filling the storage with hydrogen at step-wise increase of…

A hydrogen leak alarm was received in the control room from the reformer of the hydrogen plant of a chemicals manufacturing facility. The reformed was depressurised and the leak stopped. The leak was…

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…

The incident occurred during the verification operation of a new high pressure hydrogen generator. The electrolysis cell burned down, the pipes of the oxygen circuit burst and the peripheral…