Event
- Event ID
- 695
- Quality
- Description
- Hydrogen release and explosion due to a leak in a high pressure hydrogen storage tank, during first start-up of plant.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Date
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Unknown
- Sub-application
- stationary GH2 storage
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- compressed hydrogen Tank
- Location type
- Unknown
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- The accident occurred during the first start-up of plant.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- Rigas&Amyotte reoprts 15 injuries and 26 fatalities. It is however unclear if they refer to the same event, because they provide only the year.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Actual pressure (MPa)
- >10.0
- Design pressure (MPa)
- >10.0
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
- High pressure explosion
- N
References
- Reference & weblink
Event no. 4490 of the UK ICHEME database in PDF format:<br />
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/… />
(accessed July 2020)Rigas F., Amyotte P., Hydrogen safety, Green chemistry and chemical engineering, CRC Press, Taylor & Frances Group; 2012. ISBN-13: 978-1439862315
SEDGWICK LOSS CONTROL NEWSLETTER, 3RD QUARTER, 1990.
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
