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 (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Unknown
- How was it involved?
- Unknown
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Steam methane reforming
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- hydrogen reformer
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- 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 injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas mixture (syngas)
- Involved substances (% vol)
- syngas
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
The link to this technical magazine is lost
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- FireWorld
