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#1 hiuha

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Posted 29 July 2014 - 01:11 AM

Hi, would like to check out for Hydrogen explosion related.

I am in an industry where the products release hydrogen as a by-products in our tank. We have two separate tank that has an explosion recently.

Tank A has known for product storage that release hydrogen

Tank B meanwhile will have minimum hydrogen.

Both tank has no open vent point but is rather connected by a vent pipe towards an open huge tank

Both tank is hardly link to each other.

When incident happened, both tank top is blasted open and both tank vent pipe is blasted

It is clear that this is an hydrogen explosion

However, it is unclear that how can Tank B with minimum hydrogen exploded at the same time as Tank A

From all the info that we get, it is only one explosion occured

Is it possible that Tank A with hydrogen gases, those gas went through Tank B vent pipe into Tank B

And when Tank A explosion triggered Tank B exploded at the exact same time?

Any comment will be helpful

thanks



#2 hiuha

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Posted 29 July 2014 - 01:15 AM

Just to be clear the vent pipe of both tank is not inter-connected

It is two different tank with their own vent pipe. These two vent pipe is from the tank top and link towards an big open tank.

the two pipe is run down to the open tank side by side

Tank A & Tank B is at separate distance at around 30m from each other

Any comment will be very helpful

Thanks



#3 gegio1960

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Posted 29 July 2014 - 02:46 AM

oh my god... the world is in very dangerous hands :-(



#4 breizh

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Posted 29 July 2014 - 03:03 AM

hiuha ,

 

Consider this link : http://h2bestpractic...ies/venting.asp

 

hope this helps

 

Breizh






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