Regions and Countries: Germany
The incident occurred in an electrostatic filtration unit. When flushing with air during the start-up phase of a sulphonation plant, an explosion occurred in the upper partof the electrostatic…
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 bus drove into the garage and collided with a folded-out safety barrier. The upper corner of the roof was damaged. Also the first hydrogen tank was affected by the collision but without any…
high pressure spherical vessel, stress corrosion stressing by hydrogen, leakage along the weld, release of H2-CH4 mixture
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…
A gaseous mixture of hydrogen (H2), methane (CH4) and ethane (CH3-CH3) at 54 bar was cooled in a heat exchanger upstream of a hydrogen purification system. The accident started with a double…
The incident occurred in the hydrogenation Unit of a non-further specified chemical plant. Before the occurring of the event, a growing leak had been discovered in the vicinity of a circulation pump…
Explosion, with consequent fire, in chemicals production plantThe accident occurred in the organo-metallic compound production unit, on a transport container for aluminum alkyls, which exploded…
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,…
An explosion and fire occurred at a chemical plant applying silicone coatings. The blast occurred when some polymethyl hydrogen siloxane was accidentally fed into a reactor, together with the correct…
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 (…
This event occurred when a hydrogen-carrying trailer was supplying hydrogen to a chemical plant. Instead of filling the hydrogen stationary storage, large quantities of hydrogen were transferred…
A lightning strike caused a voltage drop on the power supply of a chlorine-alkali plant using the mercury process.The emergency electrical system was activated, though restoring the external supply…
Employees were trying to open the manhole cover (600 mm diameter) of a hydrofluoric acid tank with a grinder, when an explosion occurred. The explosion was probably caused by the presence of hydrogen…
The incident occurred in a facility chrome-plating metals. At the time of the event, a metal roller was being chrome-plated. A short circuit occurred due to a defective contacting (contact rails) on…
waste water tank Hydrogen that causes the incident has been produced either during waste water treatment or by a reaction between sodium borohydride and the waste water filling the tank.
The explosion occurred in a copper electroplating plant test furnace when starting the operation of copper plating. EVENT DETAILS A tinned copper pipe had been placed inside another copper pipe and…
Works at the power grid of a hydrogen production unit is at the origin of the sequence of the following events:1.Fusion of a safe fuse triggering the closure of a valve on the manifold of a pistons…
During functional tests of the system, a major quantity of hydrogen-containing gas was released from an adsorber, followed by its ignition.After the alarm was released the feed of the adsorber was…