#HydrogenSafety #GasSafety101
🔥Follow-up on SK Energy's Ulsan, Korea refinery explosion: 2nd person dies.
🔥Follow-up #2: If the @h2_view story is true↙️, not just residual hydrogen leaked & exploded when the pipeline was opened, but the #H2 gas supply was not isolated! #SOP must include a double block-and-bleed! ↘️
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As @tixhonjm.bsky.social says, a single picture is very powerful.↙️
This screen grab↘️ shows the root cause of the 23May2019 Gangneung, South Korea #hydrogen explosion that killed 2: O2 pressure > H2 pressure, so any electrolyzer leak was #O2 into #H2.
Anything over 6% O2 in the H2 storage tank is enough to enable an explosion!
#Electrolysis101
Eliseo (Lee) Curcio provided on LinkedIn what appears to be an AI-generated summary of the Arup (2022) Scottish Government "Assessment of electrolyzers: report".↙️
My LinkedIn comment https://bit.ly/40pJZIU critiques two of these views↘️ :
1⃣"Thermolysis" (requires 2,500°C, not 2,000°C!) is not "Electrolysis"
2⃣"Membrane-less Electrolysis" is intrinsically unsafe & not allowed by international safety standard ISO 22734
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🎆 🔥 2025Mar31 Korea Supreme Court: +10B won US$6.8MM damages award for 2019 Gangneung hydrogen explosion, which killed 2 injured 6
1) No oxygen monitor on #hydrogen gas produced by electrolyzer
2) Unqualified incompetent company was in charge!
Conclusion: use qualified people who know #H2 safety
My 2024 post with more technical details:
️ A breakthrough in hydrogen safety! The new organic semiconductor sensor detects leaks fast, affordably, and with incredible accuracy. Making hydrogen energy safer for homes, industries, and transportation! #HydrogenSafety #CleanEnergyTech #Innovation #RenewableEnergy #FutureTechhttps://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/a-new-era-of-hydrogen-safety/8569946/Posted by newsienow
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I hope Supercritical Solutions Ltd #SSL told Shell Ventures #Shell & Toyota Ventures #Toyota that #SSL electrolyzers produce flammable🔥 hydrogen-oxygen gas mixes!
Granted patent GB2605761 has 0 data.
But WIPO pending app ⬇️ WO2024061976A3 by #SSL shows:
- 22% H2 in anode O2 (5.5x above 4% lower flammability limit #LFL)🔥
- 11-12% O2 in cathode H2 (2x below 6% upper flammability limit #UFL)🔥
I need to let UK HSE Solutions know #SSL is totally unsafe!
#hydrogen #H2 #safety
KeithDPatch
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