Event
- Event ID
- 166
- Quality
- Description
- A hydrogen generator overheated during testing and started a small fire in a power plant.
- 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?
- Unknown
- How was it involved?
- Fire
- Initiating cause
- Over-Heating
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- A hydrogen generator overheated during testing and started a small fire in a power plant.
Facility
- Application
- Power Plant
- Sub-application
- unspecified
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- Hydrogen generator
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- Testing of hydrogen generator
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Emergency action
- 15.30 The leak starts
15:45 The gas ignites. The company’s emergency response team fight the (oil) fire and cooled the equipment near the flame jet so as to minimise damage.
16.10 The oil fire is brought under control (also the time at which the fire fighters arrived).
till 16:45 Waiting for the flame jet to stop burning because of lack of hydrogen, the neighbouring installations are cooled
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
The link to this technical magazine is lost
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- FireWorld
