Event
- Event ID
- 1172
- Quality
- Description
- The company treat waste biofuel sources, such as beef tallow and other animal fats, vegetable oils and used cooking oil. Hydrogen is bought in by a supplier and is used, together with catalysts, to break down more complex fatty molecules known as triglycerides. The process turns the animal and vegetable fats into chemicals closer to more traditional hydrocarbon fuels, like diesel.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Reactor / Oven / Furnace / Test Chamber
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- hydro-treatment
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- unknown
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
- The company treat waste biofuel sources, such as beef tallow and other animal fats, vegetable oils and used cooking oil. Hydrogen is bought in by a supplier and is used, together with catalysts, to break down more complex fatty molecules known as triglycerides. The process turns the animal and vegetable fats into chemicals closer to more traditional hydrocarbon fuels, like diesel.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 2
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
USNEWS, Sept 19, 2024 <br />
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/louisiana/articles/2024-09-19/t… />
(acessed uAgust 2025)Online news of Hydrogen Insight:<br />
https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/industrial/two-workers-airlifted-to-hos… />
(accessed April 2025)H2 news of 20/09/2025<br />
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww…The Advocate news of 10/10/2024<br />
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/environment/dangerous-fire… />
(acccessed Feb 2026)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
