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During the shipments of incinerator bottom ash, flammable gasses including hydrogen generated and caused two explosions. The first explosion was in the forecastle store and the second in the cargo…
The event occurred in a silicon hydride (SiH) emulsion production process inside an enclosed production building. The process generated a flammable gas cloud gas ignited, which later ignited causing…
The soldiers of the Royal Prussian Air Ship Division stored large amounts of hydrogen gas. They kept some 1000 cylinders in a shed. On 25 May 1894 about 400 of them burst without apparent reason.…
The safety cabinet with compressed hydrogen was located in a laboratory and used to supply hydrogen to an experimental facility. The safety cabinet was equipped with exhaust extraction. Due to a leak…
This entry refer to a series of events occurred before the date given, which corresponds to the publication of the evidences at the Int. Conference on Hydrogen Safety 2015. The nozzle/receptacle…
The event occurred at one of the unit producing iron powder, consisting of a furnace with a running belt for the powder, kept under hydrogen atmosphere to reduce and purify the metal. The hydrogen…
The explosion occurred in a Litol benzene unit, when it was being restarted following a scheduled shutdown for maintenance. The explosion followed the release of about 30 kilograms of hydrogen gas…
The incident occurred in a hydrocracker unit of the refinery. A control valve on the liquid line between the high- and the low-pressure separators was opened in error and the liquid allowed to drain…
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…
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…
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…
A hydrogen explosion had ruptured a pipe in the core spray system at the Brunsbttel BWR in Germany. Although the control room instrumentation had at the time indicated a leak of radioactive steam,…
Explosion at styrene plant during start-up. A manhead flange failed in a light oil hydrogenation unit releasing 30 kg of hydrogen in a compressor shed. Ignition occurred in 10 to 15 secs.…
An explosion occurred a the Lurgi electrolysis unit of a chemical factory. The plant suffered extensive damage and one man died. The electrolysis plant produced hydrogen for process use and oxygen as…
An explosion and fire occurred at night inside a unit for the synthesis of toluene di-amine (TDA). The process implies the hydrogenation of di-nitrotoluene (DNT) in presence of Isopropanol as…
on a Sunday morning, in a ceramic factory, a leak on a 100 m tank containing 370 kg of hydrogen caused an explosion. The generated pressure wave causes significant damage to exterior buildings (…
Localized corrosion of a FCCU (Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit) feed Hydrotreater recycle hydrogen line by-pass around a hydrogen pre-heat exchanger led to an explosion and fire.The failed part of the…
The accident occurred during the first phase of the batch synthesis of tricarbonyl compound (methylcyclopentadienyl) manganese (TMCM), while the reaction mixture in the reactor consisted of more than…
An explosion and fire occurred at a 3000-gallon (approx. 11400 l) reactor, part of the production process of linear alkyl benzene (LAB), Process materials released from the various vessels and piping…
Explosion within a blast furnace occurred at the plant manufacturing iron. The event occurred at one of the blast furnace of the plant, which exploded. The explosion was so powerful that the entire…
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