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… it performed a sharp turn to face into the wind, which was shifting. The engines were run at full speed astern for … for disembarking passengers and cargo. The starboard line was being handled by ground crew at the time of the fire. The … only reasonable explanation for the cover flutter is that hydrogen was leaking from a gas cell and causing the cover to …
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… occurred when a welder belong to a sub-contractor company was working on tank roof. The zeolite crystallization tank was being cleaned out with approx. 20% sulfuric acid. It was … equipment, when a loud explosion was heard by many.Hydrogen evolution due to acid action on steel vessel walls …
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… occurred.The gas mixture contained hydrocarbons with 30% hydrogen. It has reached its working pressure of 31 bar, but was only at -26 degrees C, instead of the working temperature of -73 degrees C, no liquid was present.An investigation found a crack, 1.6 metres long, …
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… When waste alkali solution was taken out of dumper trucks into a waste liquid storage … waste solution got in flames. The cause of the incident was the waste alkali solution with heavier specific gravity … at the bottom the tank. This resulted in generation of hydrogen gas, which was ignited by fire at the incinerator. … …
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… makes it possible to heat the load of heavy oil and hydrogen by recovering the heat of the load already passed … No flame and smoke were visible from the outside. The unit was stopped, depressurised and cooled with water and foam, … waiting for the complete depressurization. The fuel supply was stopped and the fire, no longer fed, was brought under …
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… fire. The accident took place during repair works. The gas was made of 65 % of hydrogen , 25 % of methane , 4.1 % of carbon monoxide and … About 100 firemen fought the fire with water nozzles. Fire was extinguished within 45 min. A safety area was set up. …
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… work. On the day of the incident, a distillation unit was shutdown for a steam air tightness test. Cooling equipment on the distillation unit was found to be leaking at the header and joint. Nitrogen … up using an impact wrench, when the fire broke out. Hydrogen gas, which formed during the previous operation of …
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… making titanium sponge. When titanium containing water was put into the drier, it came to contact with the edge of … with water spilled from the fractured drier, producing hydrogen gas. This led to the vapour explosion scattering …
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… unit after a technical stop, a synthesis gas (50% hydrogen, 17% ammonia, methane and nitrogen) leak ignited on … the synthesis reactor. Emergency shutdown of the unit was executed and the fire was extinguished in a bit less than 1 hour. The leaking at …
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… unit, a 350-bar leakage of synthesis gas (ammonia + hydrogen) occurred in the compressor room. The leak was the result of the failure of a weld on a line (2") at the … One of the electric motors of the four compressors present was probably at the origin of the ignition, which brought …
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… A gas mixture (25% nitrogen, 73% of hydrogen, 2% methane) leaked, due to the ejection of the … and a fire. After about 1 hour and 30 minutes the fire was under control. The shockwave from the explosion caused a …
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… a cleansing process at the washing station. The incident was caused by a pressure build-up inside the container caused by flammable gases, mainly hydrogen, formed by the chemical reaction of aqueous caustic … in this particular case, even after several attempts it was impossible to completely remove the deposits on the inner …
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… failed due to high pressure. The overpressure in the tank was the result of a backflow of compressed hydrogen gas. When operators reduced the discharge pressure … Detailed incident evolution: The shutdown of the unit was performed to replace substituted with heavy gas oil …
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… leak caught fire from hot surfaces. Also the generator's hydrogen leaked out and exploded. The fire caused the loss of …
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… In addition, there were lines with steam, fuel gas, hydrogen, amine solutions and sour water pipelines. Within 10 … The fires were extinguished after 12 hours. A lagging fire was concluded with excessive oil in the trench. The pipes …
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… The truck was carrying cylinders of nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), hydrogen (H2) and acetylene on a national road. It struck the …
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… were: 120 m of oxygen, 24 acetylene cylinders, 106.80 m of hydrogen, 120 m of nitrogen, and 3.6 m of B20 balloon gas. …
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… the fire was detected by an employee during the normal inspection tour, . It was caused by the ignition of a leak of process gas (hydrogen, methane and water vapour) from the reforming …
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… at a university laboratoryThe university lab affected was investigating generation of hydrogen and methane from biomass (wooden chips). The experimental furnace was a concrete cylindrical furnace of the diameter of 4 m and …
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… reactor ruptured, releasing gas composed by 70 % of hydrogen and 30 % of gaseous hydrocarbons (methane, ethane and others). The release gas was ignited and a fire developed in the plant area where …
