Event
- Event ID
- 126
- Quality
- Description
A flash fire enveloped a hydrogen compressor at a refinery.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- compressor / booster / pump
- Failure mode
- leak
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical industry
- Sub-application
- Unspecified refinery process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
H2 compressor
- Process temperature range [C]
- Above ambient temperature (50°C to 100°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- unknown
- Location type
- Confined
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- unknown
- Number of injured persons
- unknown
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Flame type
References
- Sources categories
- FireWorld
- Reference & weblink
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