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The company affected manufactures valves and other hydrogen-storage components, equipment tests. It has offers as well a testing laboratory. The accident happened during testing of a hydrogen tank.…
A researcher was conducting an experiment that involved sawdust being heated at pressure using hydrogen gas in an laboratory-scale autoclave.The gas leaked from the autoclave during the experiment…
The accident occurred in a disposal storage for contaminated waste, consisting in a 65-metre shaft flooded with seawater. At the origin of the explosion was the reaction with water of at least two…
There was a massive explosion at one of the generator-turbine units of a coal-based power station. Undetected hydrogen leak from the generator was identified as a major trigger.According to the news…
Workers were connecting a compressed hydrogen cylinder, when a release of hydrogen occurred within a safety-box for flammable gases. During the emergency response procedures, the explosive atmosphere…
The explosion occurred at a hydrogen fuel plant mainly serving hydrogen forklift fleets. The explosion damaged several nearby homes and could be felt nearly 10 miles away.Police and firefighters…
The Unit for Catalysed Removal of Carbon Dioxide (Catacarb) leaked and hydrogen fire at the hydrocracking unit. The fire lasted approximately 10 minutes. Localized corrosion caused a pipe to fail and…
A fire broke out on a heat exchanger in a hydrocarbons plant. The cause of the fire was leakage of hydrogen.
The truck was delivering hydrogen to a steel products plant and contained from 1500 to 2000 gallons of liquid hydrogen (approximately 7000 to 9000 l). The hydrogen was being pumped from the trucks…
This incident occurred in a unit processing vegetable oils and fats. A fire-brigade from the involved town was at the scene in a few minutes and was assisted by the Fire Department of a bigger city.…
a gas leakage (approximately 70% hydrogen, 21% nitrogen and the rest carbon monoxide and other impurities) occurred at the connection between a temperature measurement casing and a flange in the…
Fire in an ammonia plantA fire broke out in the hydrogen section of ammonia plant.
The hydrogen bus was in the workshop. The fire started on the bus and expanded to the shed, which was containing also a conventional bus. Due to the presence of hydrogen, the fire brigade intervened…
The fire developed an early morning on a hydrogen bus at a refuelling station for public transport. The fire Department was called to site responding to reports of a fire on the property. A section…
A truck-trailer transporting 4,000 pounds (1800 kg) of compressed hydrogen burned to ground, including the driver cabin. The driver was able to get out before it got fully engulfed. 3- to 4-feet of…
A hydrogen and batteries driven aircraft was forced to land after a flight incident. According to the aircraft company the aircraft was forced to an emergency landing, but landed normally on its…
On a highway, a truck loaded with 400 gas cylinders crashed at night for an undetermined cause against a concrete wall and overturned. It slipped 150 m, before several 200 litre cylinders of hydrogen…
An explosion occurred while inflating a balloon with hydrogen gas. The News reported the involvement of the hydrogen bottle.
The hydrogen possible leaked and ignited from a tank which was inside a car parked in a hospital underground parking garage. The tank was supposed to be used for launching a weather balloon. Two…
A hydrogen car caught fire at a hydrogen fuelling station. During refuelling of a H2-fueled car the owner heard an abnormal noise and opened the fuel filler door to investigate. A small fire then…