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Clean Hydrogen Partnership

Explosion

Event

Event ID
121
Quality
Description

Hydrogen explosion on NPO "Azot" in Rovno, Ukraine.

Event Initiating system
Classification of the physical effects
Hydrogen Release and Ignition
Nature of the consequences
Macro-region
Europe
Country
Ukraine
Date
Component involved
unknown
Failure mode
unknown
Initiating cause
unknown
Root causes
Unknown
Date entry in HIAD
28/02/2009

Facility

Application
Chemical industry
Sub-application
Ammonia production
Hydrogen supply chain stage
Location type
Unknown
Location
industrial area
Operational condition
UNKNOWN

Emergency & Consequences

Number of fatalities
unknown
Number of injured persons
unknown

In-depth data

Release type
Liquid
Involved substances (% vol)
H2 100%
Probable IGNITION SOURCE
Explosion type

References

Sources categories
News
Reference & weblink

Provided to HIAD 1.0 by HySafe NoE. (Original source unavailable).