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Explosion and Fire in a Chemical Plant for Lubricants Production (173)

Plant own emergency response team was activated, assisted from local fire and emergency Services and regional Police. No one was injured during the incident and flames were brought under control within 30 minutes. Hydrogen was being allowed to burn off in a controlled manner as a safety measure. The cause of the fire was not known at that time and no estimate of damage was available. .

Hydrogen Fire from a Liquid Hydrogen Transporter (57)

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 hydrogen cloud and ignited in a flash fire and concussion loud enough to be heard inside the nearby building (the buildings seismic event detectors went off). A small amount of hydrogen gas continued to escape from the trailer tank and burn for almost eight hours, until a specialist of the truck delivery company arrived to manually shut off a critical valve.

Explosion and Fire in a Petrochemical Plant (44)

The explosion occurred in a Litol benzene unit, when it was being restarted following a scheduled shutdown for maintenance. The explosion followed the release of about 30 kilograms of hydrogen gas into a compressor shed from a burst flange operating at 4.8 MPa (700 psig). Two men were killed and two more were injured. The investigation is reported in the referred scientific article, and arrived to these conclusions: 1. the hydrogen was released through a failed flange gasket 2. it accumulated and ignited under the roof of the compressor shed.

Steam Reformer Explosion at a Oil Production Plant (18)

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 on the furnace structure. An emergency shutdown of the furnace was initiated and the start up aborted. At the time of the incident there were 7 people on the furnace. Four were operations staff plus three maintenance personnel.
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