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A hydrogen compressor had a major malfunction resulting in serious cavitations, vibrations and dead heading of the 1st stage. The incident resulted in 5 of the 8 lower head bolts on the first stage…
A major leak (estimated between 1.5 and 3 kg) of hydrogen from high-pressure storage, resulted in a detonation, from hydrogen a refuelling station.Causes were two untightened bolts securing the…
The event started when a gasket in a water pump was blown out. The water pump was situated inside a 100 m long, 10 m wide, and 7 m high building. The pump was feeding water to a vessel containing…
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…
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…
During a filling at a hydrogen refuelling station, the station was shut down due to a gas detection. The leak was extremely small and difficult to locate but the gas was directed upwards towards the…
An oil leak in a compressor was identified in the end of Aug 2015 by a technician performing regular maintenance on the compressor. The oil leak had caused a contamination of the entire system from…
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…