Event
- Event ID
- 140
- Quality
- Description
A leak followed by a fire occurred on a hydrogen unit. The Unit was serving a 220,000-barrel oil sands plant. The incident temporarily cut production nearly 80 percent.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Date
- Component involved
- unknown
- Failure mode
- unknown
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical industry
- Sub-application
- Oilsands refinery
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Process temperature range [C]
- unknown
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- unknown
- Location type
- Open
- 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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