Event
- Event ID
- 92
- Quality
- Description
- The event occurred during the disconnection of the hydrogen compressor for maintenance.
Two deaths and three injured workers were the consequences.
The cause(s) of the event are unknown
. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- South America
- Country
- Venezuela
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Compressor / Booster / Pump
- How was it involved?
- Explosion (H2-Air Mixture)
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Generic refinery process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Compression (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- hydrogen compressor
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- The disconnection of the hydrogen compressor was done to allow maintenance.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 3
- Number of fatalities
- 2
- Emergency action
- The system was borught in a safe condition by venting tank content through a remote operation. How the leak was ' noticed' was not reported.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description in French database ARIA<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/31548/<br />
(accessed September 2020)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
