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Explosion at Shreveport refinery involving hydrogen injured a worker

Release from pressure bottle followed by ignition and perhaps fast deflagration. Nine people affected, including the operator of the bottle.

A hydrogen leakage caught fire in the hydrogen compressor area of the continuous reforming unit. The reforming unit and the hydrocracking unit were immediately stopped. The hydrogen flow was cut off…

A hydrogen leak occurred in in the cooling system of electricity generation part of the in a nuclear power plant. .

A hydrogen leak was detected in the dispenser pump causing the alarm to sound.

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…

An incident occurred on a compressor at a refinery Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU) plant involving hydrogen. Source of ignition was hot surface.

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 fire developed on one of two naphtha crackers The rupture of the reactor made that the hydrogen, petroleum products and the pyrophoric catalyst came outside the reactor. The mixture immediately…

Compressed hydrogen was released from a storage system due to the rupture of a Bourdon-type pressure gauge.

A road tanker was being loaded with liquid hydrogen from a 15,000 gallon storage tank, when fire broke out after 1 inch rupture disk failed, ignition source was a loose connection in down stream…

Gas leakage from a hydrogen cylinders pallet in transit.

A joint failure allowed a mixture of hydrogen and nitrogen into the atmosphere.Failure of double cone joint on waste heat boiler in synthesis loop caused release of synthesis gas at 28.7 MPa and 170…

A high pressure reactor ruptured during a catalyst activation operation. A gaseous stream of hydrogen and light hydrocarbons was released and spontaneously ignited. The unit was immediately…

During the start-up of a propylene hydrogenation reactor, very high temperatures were generated in the catalyst bed. At the time, propylene and hydrogen were being fed to the reactor which contained…

Around 60 people gathered in a small theatre at a shopping centre to watch an array of scientific experiments, including a "small hydrogen explosion."Several children suffered second degree burns…

A severe fire in a hydrogen compressor building in a unifier unit of an oil sands refinery reportedly started in a 1,500 psi lube oil system. Fire fighting was difficult because of 40 degrees F…

Fire caused by leakage from tank. Gaseous hydrogen release in generator caused by turbine vibrations