HIAD Specific Application Supply Chain Stage: Hydrogen Transport

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…

The fire broke out under the cabin of a heavy-duty vehicle transporting industrial gas cylinders (hydrogen, acetylene, helium) close to a paint company. Firefighters shelter the employees of this…

A truck driver carrying compressed gas cylinders loaded on pallets stopped on the emergency stop lane of a highway after a tyre burst. The gases transported were: 120 m of oxygen, 24 acetylene…

A fire on a hydrogen pipeline in a refinery.

A hydrogen leak occurred on a 50 mm pipe feeding a reactor. The leak ignited spontaneously when mixed with air. Thanks to the closing of the input and output valves, the quantity released could be…

A truckload of hydrogen cylinders caught fire at plant producing artificial sweetener.

A flash fire enveloped a hydrogen compressor at a refinery.

Overpressure caused a cylinder head of a gas compressor to fail causing release of hydrogen followed by a fire during the start-up of the compressor after maintenance.

In a plastics production plant, a pallet containing 7 cylinders of nitrogen and 1 cylinder of hydrogen fell from a truck traveling in a logistics zone. The driver stopped the vehicle, cut off the…

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…

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…

Since the release could not be stopped by intervening at the leaking point, the fire brigade decided to vent the whole content of the pallet (246 m3) by gradually opening the valves and by keeping…

An explosion occurred in hydrogen compressor, due to rupture of 4 inch suction pipeline to the compressor. "Hydrogen...exploded and continued to burn until it was extinguished".3 fatalities.

A huge car crash take place on the highway A4/E70 between Padua and Trieste, North of Italy. More than 250 cars were involved. More than 13 persons died and more than 90 injured. The main reason of…

An open backed truck was delivering various industrial gases to sites. At the site of the explosion a rack of argon gas bottles was being delivered to a laboratory in the building adjacent to the…

The explosion occurred when an operator opened a valve on the hydrogen network of the plant. The operator suffered from a burn in the forearm and two other employees are shocked by the pressure wave…

A hydrogen fire occurred in a nuclear power plant outside the controlled area. The leaking point was on a pipe system of the distribution circuit of the gas network (6 bar nominal working pressure…

A lorry loaded with gaseous hydrogen cylinders caught fire and shut a motorway.No one has been injured.

A hydrogen fuel tank release caused a fire at an AC Transit fuel station, prompting authorities to, as a precaution, evacuate several businesses and a high school and to close a number of…

In a plant manufacturing chlorate products, a hydrogen leak occurred via the water drainage outlet onto the factory floor. Pressure in the hydrogen line increased because the hydrogen pipes were…