HIAD Nature Event - Release Type: Liquid
A deflagration occurred during shutdown of a reactor used for ammonia synthesis. It was followed by a jet fire. The hydrogen leak was probably due first to the lower seals, followed by another leak…
The incident occurred at a fuel cells manufacturing plant. The tanker was preparing to transfer liquid hydrogen to the company hydrogen bulk storage tank. During backing, it impacted an industrial…
An explosion at a refinery started a fire that was fueled by diesel and hydrogen.
Huge explosion of liquid chlorine mixed with hydrogen took place on pulp and paper plant in Arkhangelsk. More than 50 tons of liquid chlorine exploded.
The last flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger ended 73 seconds after the launch in an explosive burn of hydrogen and oxygen propellants that destroyed the External Tank and exposed the Orbiter to…
The accident occurred during the maintenance of a sulfuric acid storage tank in an industry for the fertilizers production. The maintenance works consisted in cutting operations (to remove some…
Fire and explosion in a chemicals plantThe process unit affected by the incident was a two-step production, consisting of i) hydrogenation of phenyl acetyl carbinol with benzyl amine in a isopropyl…
A rupture in the furnace of an oil refinery caused it to loose 700 pounds of diesel and hydrogen resulting in a fire.
A fire occurred on a plant. The fire resulted from an escape of liquid hydrogen from a joint between an isolating block valve and a relief valve on one of the separation column preheater. The…
A road tanker carrying 125,000 cubic feet of liquid hydrogen caught fire when the tankers vent stack malfunctioned.The area within a one-mile radius was evacuated. No one was injured in the…
A hydrogen leak occurred on a sintering furnace in a manufactory of uranium pellets. The event happened during the restart phase after a period of maintenance. The hydrogen ignited at the location…
Hydrogen explosion on NPO "Azot" in Rovno, Ukraine.
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 vent occurred outside a fuel cells manufacturing facility. While preparing for transfer of liquid hydrogen from tanker truck to storage tank, a release of hydrogen occurred, which vaporized into…
A detonation was heard and the hydrogen supply of the site was automatically shut down by the safety devices.The fire was caused by a hydrogen leak and led to the formation of a fireball at the end…
the commercial vehicle was traveling when the two-person crew noticed what appeared to be smoke emitting from the tanker trailer. The crew called 911 and safely pulled to the side of the road Fire…
A pressure relief device (frangible burst disk) on one of a hydrogen delivery tube trailer`s 26 tubes failed prematurely and released hydrogen while filling a hydrogen storage tank at a government…
The incident consisted of a leakage of potassium hydroxide solution (KOH) from an alkaline electrolyzer in a renewable hydrogen production plant. One webpage news reported that smoke formation…
The whole content of the rail tanker, that is 42,000 l (about 2600 kg) of liquid hydrogen, was entirely lost over a period of seven hours via the venting line of a tank. The accident occurred at a…
The leak occurred on a 44 m vehicle of liquid hydrogen during a delivery to the unloading station of a steel plant. The truck drivers had connected the tank container to the fixed storage managed by…