Regions and Countries: Japan
This entry refer to a series of events occurred before the date given, which corresponds to the publication of the evidences at the Int. Conference on Hydrogen Safety 2015. The nozzle/receptacle…
Electric spark ignited hydrogen in a captive advertising balloon.
A fire in an oil refineryThe fire broke out together with an explosion noise from the heavy oil direct desulfurization system of the height of about 20 m. The fire burned a part of the system…
An explosion occurred in a hydrocracking reactor fitted with TOC which is a automatic cut-off system for raw oil and hydrogen supply. On the day of the incident, the operation was stopped with TOC…
The event occurred at an ethylene production plant. The plant was shutdown at the time as the supply of compressed air to the gauges had inadvertently been switched off. This failure of the air…
The naphtha and hydrogen gas leaked out from the gasoline reformer at the Southwest Petroleum as the relief-valve was operated after its repair.Although the source (Asian database ADRC) does not…
The explosion occurred at the hydrogen producing unit of a refinery.A solution of potassium carbonate was being drawn off from an absorption tower to a temporary storage tank for a turnaround…
The event occurred in the steam condensing line of the residual heat removal system the nuclear reactor. Radiolysis generated hydrogen and oxygen which then accumulated in high concentration in the…
Explosion accident while testing liquid water turbo-pump - A fire occurred during testing of a turbine pump which is a part of a rocket engine. On the day of the incident, seven seconds after the rpm…
An explosion occurred at testing facility of a space rocket engine. The incident occurred when executing a test studying the performance of a hydrogen gas flow measuring system for fuel feeding…
Explosion due to hydrogen gas leakage from an abraded pipe: A hole was made in a pipeline used for catalyst regeneration at an aromatics plant, ejecting catalysts and hydrogen gas which ignited.…
This incident occurred unit at a demonstration of a new technology for the catalytic cracking of vacuum residual oil. An oil storage tank failed due to high pressure. The overpressure in the tank was…
The incident affected at an indirect oil desulfurization unit, and originated at a piping at the outlet of a heat exchanger. The exchanger was located in the furthermost downstream of the reactor.…
Explosion due to injection of hydrogen into a furnace containing residual air.
Explosion of nitrobenzene fluoride while mixing with hydrogen gas: Fluoronitrobenzene exploded when mixing it with compressed hydrogen gas.
Flask explosion due to hydrogen in the science class.
An explosion occurs during testing of the hydrogen feeding of an engine in the Spatial Agency Centre.
An explosion occurred during a reduction process for the manufacture of para-phenetidine (PPD). The explosion took place due to the convergence of several events. Workers did not firmly close a valve…
An explosion occurred at testing equipment of a fuel-feeding system for a space rocket engine. According to the original source of this event, now lost, the test envisaged a 42 MPa high-pressure…
The explosion occurred in an incinerator for non-industrial wastes, during inspection and repair works. These were due to a large quantity of aluminum which produced a solid lump of ash. The…