HIAD Nature of the Consequences: Explosion

A fire in an oil refineryThe fire broke out together with an explosion noise from the heavy oil direct desulfurization system of the height of about 20 m. The fire burned a part of the system…

An explosion followed by a fire occurred at a tar precipitator of gas treatment of a coke oven. The extractors were manually activated. Ten minutes later, the operator activates the internal…

An explosion and fire occurred on a reformer at a fertiliser plant. Source of ignition was autoignition or electric motor.

An explosion occurred in a hydrocracking reactor fitted with TOC which is a automatic cut-off system for raw oil and hydrogen supply. On the day of the incident, the operation was stopped with TOC…

The event occurred at an ethylene production plant. The plant was shutdown at the time as the supply of compressed air to the gauges had inadvertently been switched off. This failure of the air…

A case under negligent act causing life danger was booked against the absconding balloon seller, Panic gripped the locality, bomb disposal squads, sniffer dogs and clues teams were rushed to the spot…

The incident at a bio-fuels research laboratory occurred when a visiting research fellow was transferring hydrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide into a low pressure gas cylinder to be used as a…

A violent explosion occurred at a blast furnace. The explosion occurred while the blast furnace was being cleaned at the end of casting. For this purpose, worker poured the contents of a casting…

SUMMARYThe explosion occurred in a catalyst regenerator of the catalytic cracking unit in a fluidized bed during a technical shutdown. A few seconds later, a second explosion is perceived, it is the…

An explosion occurred at a chlorine production plant during the restart of the installation. An hydraulic syphon had probably been blocked by fire extinguishing products following a previous fire on…

An explosion in oil from a coal plant occurred as a gas unit which turns methane into carbon monoxide and hydrogen was being reactivated.

The naphtha and hydrogen gas leaked out from the gasoline reformer at the Southwest Petroleum as the relief-valve was operated after its repair.Although the source (Asian database ADRC) does not…

Explosion in condenser area two hours after the unit tripped (due to a stator earth fault). The stator earth fault had damaged two hydrogen cooler tubes, which allowed hydrogen to pass from the…

In a residual-oil hydrotreatment unit (also called residual oil hydrogenation) plant, a hydrogenation unit caught fire with a huge bang, followed by a fireball in the form of a mushroom cloud. Black…

A 7 inch thick reactor of a wide range hydrocracking unit being operated by computer at 2500 psi failed explosively due to localised heating. The blast caused widespread damage over a 300 yard radius…

Employees #1 - #3 were machinists that were in the process of trouble shooting a compressor which had hydrogen in the lines. No actual work was in process. They were only listening for obvious noises…

The explosion occurred at the hydrogen producing unit of a refinery.A solution of potassium carbonate was being drawn off from an absorption tower to a temporary storage tank for a turnaround…

On September 1, 1992, an explosion in this facility occurred due to an accidental release of hydrogen at the Institute of Energy Conversion, University of Delaware, US. Hydrogen gas was used in…

Fire in bulk hydrogen storage compound. Pressure gauge shut off valve spindle blown out (could be completely unscrewed and removed). The subsequent leak ignited by unknown source. No injuries…

A contained explosion in a hydrogen tank occurred at the thermal generation plant