Event
- Event ID
- 132
- Quality
- Description
A fire broke out at an oil refinery and caused a hydrogen reformer to shut down.
- 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
- unknown
- Failure mode
- unknown
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical industry
- Sub-application
- Steam methane reforming
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
hydrogen reformer
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
A fire broke out at an oil refinery and caused a hydrogen reformer to shut down.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas mixture (syngas)
- Involved substances (% vol)
- syngas
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- FireWorld
- Reference & weblink
The link to FireWorld magazine is lost
