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Fire on a hydrogen pipeline in a metallurgy plant

Event

Event ID
135
Quality
Description

A hydrogen line running to a furnace caught fire at a metals plant

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
pipe (generic)
Failure mode
rupture & ignition
Initiating cause
unknown
Root causes
Unknown
Date entry in HIAD
28/02/2009

Facility

Application
Steel and metals industry
Sub-application
generic metal processing
Hydrogen supply chain stage
All components affected

hydrogen feed line, furnace

Location type
Unknown
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

References

Sources categories
FireWorld
Reference & weblink

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