Event
- Event ID
- 487
- Quality
- Description
- A compressed hydrogen trailer released accidentally hydrogen which ignited producing a hissing 60 jet flame.
It triggered the evacuation of a one-mile stretch. It was estimated that the tanker burned off about 32,000 cubic feet of hydrogen (ca. 75 kg) over a 2.5-hour period before the flame was extinguished.
The tanker contained about 100,000 cubic feet (ca. 230 kg) in 10 separate tubes. Firefighters climbed on the tanker truck during the incident to shut off the other nine tubes so their contents would not burn off as well. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Valve (Generic)
- How was it involved?
- Rupture & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- Tanker containing 100,000 cubic feet (ca. 230 kg) in 10 separate tube
- Location type
- Unknown
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- Unknown
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- 1-mile radius evacuation
32,000 cubic feet (75 kg) hydrogen lost
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release duration
- 9000
- Released amount
- 75
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
- Flame type
- Jet flame
- Flame length (m)
- 20
References
- Reference & weblink
EV World online news, <br />
http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=communique&newsid=3669
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
