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Fire on a hydrogen production unit of a refinery

Event

Event ID
133
Quality
Description

A fire at a gasoline refinery knocked out one of two hydrogen units, hindering production. Assumed high temperature from fire knocked out the hydrogen unit

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
unknown
Failure mode
unknown
Initiating cause
unknown
Root causes
Unknown
Date entry in HIAD
28/02/2009

Facility

Application
Petrochemical industry
Sub-application
Unspecified refinery process
Hydrogen supply chain stage
All components affected

hydrogen unit

Location type
Unknown
Location
industrial area
Operational condition

Emergency & Consequences

Number of fatalities
0
Number of injured persons
0

In-depth data

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

References

Sources categories
FireWorld
Reference & weblink

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