Event
- Event ID
- 684
- Quality
- Description
- Hydrogen enrichment of the gaseous phase in a rail tanker initiated an exothermic reaction between hydrogen and chlorine which in turn triggered fire of iron chloride.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Date
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Chemicals transportation
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- train, tank
- Location type
- Semiconfined
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas-solid mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,
CL2,
FeCl3 - Presumed ignition source
- Run-away reaction
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description extracted from the UK database ICHEME in PDF<br />
<br />
https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/safety-centre/resources/accident-data/… />
(accessed October 2020)<br />The primary source was in CHEMICAL HAZARDS IN INDUSTRY, 1993, JUN.<br />
(source lost)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ICHEME
