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A boiler explosion is a catastrophic failure of a boiler. There are two types of boiler explosions. One type is a failure of the pressure parts of the steam and water sides. There can be many different causes, such as failure of the safety valve, corrosion of critical parts of the boiler, or low water
Etching of damage from a boiler explosion in Newark, New Jersey in 1867 This is a list of steam boiler explosions such as railway locomotive , marine transport (military and civilian), and stationary power:
BLEVE–fireball, 2008 Toronto propane explosion The following is a list of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) accidents. It shows whether the accident occurred during dangerous goods transportation or at a fixed facility, the accident origin (e.g., storage, process reactor, rail tank car, tank truck), the material involved, its amount, the number of fatalities, and whether a ...
A burst boiler on Thanksgiving morning is forcing the closure of Murdock Middle/High School all this week.. The water boiler, which was installed when the building was built in the 1990s, exploded ...
A BLEVE–fireball at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery, as rendered by the CSB. A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE, / ˈ b l ɛ v iː / BLEV-ee) is an explosion caused by the rupture of a vessel containing a pressurized liquid that is or has reached a temperature sufficiently higher than its boiling point at atmospheric pressure.
Littoral explosion at Waikupanaha ocean entry at the big island of Hawaii was caused by the lava entering the ocean. A steam explosion is an explosion caused by violent boiling or flashing of water or ice into steam, occurring when water or ice is either superheated, rapidly heated by fine hot debris produced within it, or heated by the interaction of molten metals (as in a fuel–coolant ...
Explosion at a bank suspected to have been caused by a gas leak in a sewer. [181] 26 December 2021 India: Muzaffarpur: 6 6 Factory boiler explosion. [182] 7 January 2022 China: Chongqing, Yuzhong District: 16 10 Chongqing explosion – Gas explosion in a housing block which contained a canteen. [183] [184] 13 January 2022 Canada: Southern ...
The Lucy Walker steamboat disaster was an 1844 steamboat accident caused by the explosion of the boilers of the steamboat Lucy Walker near New Albany, Indiana, on the Ohio River. The explosion occurred on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 23, 1844, when the steamer's three boilers exploded, set the vessel on fire, and sank it. It was one of a ...