Skip to main content
Clean Hydrogen Partnership

Explosion

Event

Event ID
122
Quality
Description

The incident took place in compression room of methanol synthesis manufactory. As a result of the destruction of a pipe, a mixture of pressurised gases (mostly hydrogen) filled compression room and then exploded.

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

Facility

Application
Chemical industry
Sub-application
Methanol production
Hydrogen supply chain stage
All components affected

compressor pipelines

Location type
Confined
Location
industrial area
Operational condition

Emergency & Consequences

Number of fatalities
0
Number of injured persons
1

In-depth data

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

References

Sources categories
News
Reference & weblink

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