HIAD Facility - Storage Medium: Liquid

A 9000 gal (34 m3) LH2 storage tank exploded during repair of the vent stack. Few days before the explosion, the tank had been filled with LH2, but later on the hydrogen released and ignited at the…

A cryogenic hydrogen laboratory had a power outage. The cryogenic hydrogen storage was no longer being cooled, therefore temperatures and pressures within the storage system started rising. There…

The rupture disk installed on a liquid hydrogen tank failed, in a plant producing organic chemicals, during the weekly shut down. The hydrogen ignited at the exit of the exhaust chimney. The fire…

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 occurred after the collision between a truck containing liquid hydrogen and a truck containing manganese dioxide on a highway.Due to the release, the traffic was interrupted for 4 hours…

A leak occurred on the safety valve of a train wagon transporting liquid hydrogen wagon. The train was composed of 10 wagons. The train was stopped on the railway several hours to allow…

A leak occurred at a of a liquid withdrawal valve of a liquid hydrogen storage tank. The hydrogen escaped at the flange between the valve body and the upper part of the valve (flange with tongue and…

On February, 20, 1987, the Vogtle nuclear power plant reported a hydrogen leak inside the auxiliary building. This plant was recently licensed, had never been critical, and was in cold shutdown at…

An accident involving a truck hauling liquid hydrogen closed an interstate highway for two hours.

A liquid hydrogen leak occurs on one of the cylinders that a truck was carrying. After the leak was stopped, the vehicle was escorted by the fire brigade and taken to a laboratory for inspection.

A 40,000-litre capacity tanker lorry carrying liquid hydrogen tipped over into a ditch on a curve in an intersection while travelling on a municipal road at the edge of town. The lorry had just left…

The truck overturned and lost vacuum insulation. The hydrogen boiled and vented, but there was no ignition. The potential for fire or explosion, however, led to precautions that did cause…

A rollover accident involving a tanker truck carrying 12,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen forced the evacuation of nearly 50 homes.

To repair a corroded flange on a 4500 liter sulfuric acid bowser outlet pipe, an angle grinder was being used to prepare the surface for welding. Within a few seconds of starting work there was a…