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HIAD Facility - Application: Metallurgy


A fire broke out on a transformer transforming 225,000 V into 15,000 V in a metallurgical plant. This transformer supplies electrical power the site and to a neighbouring factory. In the following…
Release of gas from a coking plant on a 20 000 cubic meters gas holder which ignited causing a fire. The accident took place during repair works. The gas was made of 65 % of hydrogen , 25 % of…
A hydrogen line running to a furnace caught fire at a metals 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…
The event occurred in the continuous casting of hot metallic melt of the plant.Cooling water leaked through a crack in the cooling water inlet pipe of a secondary cooling line and directly into the…
The event took place at the metal sheet pre-heating oven. This oven uses a mixture of hydrogen and nitrogen to form a reducing atmosphere. The zinc crucibles draining operations was completed and…
A hydrogen leak occurs in a manufacture of steel pipes. The leak is detected and the alarm is triggered.
In a metal production company, a leak occurred on valve of a hydrogen line. A new valve was ordered. Almost one month later workers arrived on site to replace the valve. After one hour they heard…
An implosion/explosion occurred on a furnace in a company of copper metallurgy. The incident occurred at the end of the production cycle, when the furnace bell is lifted at the end of the cooling…
The fire took place during maintenance works in one out of the three gas extractors of the coke process line. Main cause was displacement of a flange which allowed the entrance of flammable mixture…
The fire broke out on a worm ("vis sans fin") supplying a conveyor of aluminum. The ignition of the powder on the ground was caused by the flame cutting operation on the worm shell which generated…
A liquid hydrogen leak occurs in a steel plant on a 42000 l tank of liquid hydrogen. A sealing coupling was installed to stop the leak.
The release took place in a metal cold rolling workshop.The hydrogen leaked from a cylinder of 15 m3, which was part of a storage system of 250 m3.Half of the workshop and the surrounding roads were…
The release of a blast furnace gas occurred at a section of pipework, due to the rupture of valve seal. The gas did not ignite and the fire service attended as a precaution. The gas was both…
Fire of drums containing lithium metal powder: Spontaneous combustion took place at drums containing lithium metal powder which were charged with argon gas for experiments. While lithium metal powder…
Fire following vapour explosion at a plant making titanium sponge due to design errors: A vapour explosion, followed by a fire, occurred at a drier in a plant making titanium sponge. When titanium…
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