Event
- Event ID
- 523
- Quality
- Description
- A hydrogen explosion happened at a chemical plant in Cheshire, UK where 18 tons of hydrogen gas went up. The firefighters were on the scene tackling the fire quickly and efficiently.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Pipe
- How was it involved?
- Rupture & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- unspecified
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Released amount
- 18000
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Source lost
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Unknown
