Event
- Event ID
- 966
- Quality
- Description
Heavy rains (more than 600 mm in 1 day) had flood a factory manufacturing calcium core electrical conductors. The power supply was cut off. The water came into contact with the calcium stored in 150 kg containers, producing hydrogen (7.5 kg per container). The heat of reaction ignited the gas. The fire was extinguished with sand.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Date
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The ARIA report (see references) identifies as possible root cause the fact that the calcium containers were the probably insufficiently sealed to deal with the abnormal quantity of water cumulated.
Facility
- Application
- Electronics And Micro-Electronics
- Sub-application
- unspecified
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- calcium storage containers
- Location type
- Unknown
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- Heavy rains (more than 600 mm in 1 day) had flood the factory.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
- Flame type
- Other
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description in the French database ARIA<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/14162/<br />
(accessed October 2020)<br />
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
