Event
- Event ID
- 489
- Quality
- Description
Hydrogen as product of the reaction process ignited and exploded.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- reactor / oven / furnace / test chamber
- Failure mode
- internal explosion
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/01/2026
Facility
- Application
- Chemical industry
- Sub-application
- CdS production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Location type
- Confined
- Location
- unknown
- Operational condition
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
Cadmium sulphate hydrate can be prepared by the reaction of cadmium metal or its oxide or hydroxide with dilute sulfuric acid. The process used appears starting from the oxide form.
CdO + H2SO4 → CdSO4 + H2O
Cd + H2SO4 → CdSO4 + H2
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 5.000
In-depth data
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- Zalosh
- Reference & weblink
Table II - Industrial Incidents of Appendix A of Zalosh and Short
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HYDROGEN FIRE AND EXPLOSION INCIDENTS
Quarterly Report No. 2 for Period December 1, 1977 - February 28, 1978
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6566131
(accessed September 2020)
