HIAD Facility - Storage Medium: Gas

The right front side of a FCEV was hit by another car.

The vehicle was being driven in traffic at low speed when it was struck from behind by a full-size pickup which forced the fuel-cell vehicle forward into another pickup. No hydrogen was released and…

A truck carrying 300 cylinders of hydrogen ran off the road and overturned in a nearby field causing 1 casualty. The fire fighting were on site, the truck was lifted back in the right position

This accident happened on the SS66 road and involved a trailer transporting compressed hydrogen cylinders. The 50 l cylinders were in packages of 16 cylinders each. Due to the breaking of fixing…

Explosion in an open road. 6 people suffered minor burns on faces or hands.

Ejection of rotor wedge material lead to vibration induced failure of components, including hydrogen seals. Serious fire resulted from hydrogen leakage, which subsequently lead to an oil fire.…

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…

A petroleum refinery experienced a catastrophic rupture of a heat exchanger in the catalytic reformer / naphtha hydrotreater unit (the NHT unit). The heat exchanger, catastrophically ruptured because…

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…

On 17 February 2000, THOR EMILIE was lost. The ship had been chartered by a Swiss company to carry about 2,000 tonnes of oxide zinc ore in bulk from Dunkerque in France to Porto Vesme on Sardinia.…

It was a small incident in a heat-electric power plant. The alarm was registered at 11:26 and the fire was extinguished at 12:03. The incident took place during tests using the reserve power…

A small hydrogen leak occurred during routine maintenance on an oil refinery unit not in operation.

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…

An empty 100-m reservoir of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) exploded at 9:15 am at a chemical site. Installed directly above its retention basin at a height of several metres, this reservoir was projected and…

Syngas explosion at a university laboratoryThe university lab affected was investigating generation of hydrogen and methane from biomass (wooden chips). The experimental furnace was a concrete…

There was a small leak of syngas (a mixture mainly consisting of hydrogen and carbon monoxide) resulting in a localized fire at a bolted flange joint on the outlet carbon steel pipework of the High…

The leak occurred at the ammonia reactor after a technical shutdown of 4 days. When the production was resumed and the syngas compressor restarted 14 hours later, a jet-fire occurred. The Internal…

Following a trip caused by the safeguarding of an ammonia production line, the syngas released into the atmosphere and ignited.

The event occurred while re-starting the ammonia production unit after a technical stop, a synthesis gas (50% hydrogen, 17% ammonia, methane and nitrogen) leak ignited on a flange located just after…