Event
- Event ID
- 383
- Quality
- Description
- A liquid-hydrogen tanker was on a journey to deliver to a customer. While performing a routine tire check, the driver discovered a leak in the plumbing. The driver brought the vehicle away from populated areas and sources of ignition and contacted the company terminal and its safety department. The product was transferred into another tanker. The leaking tanker was then sent to the shop for repairs.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Leak No Ignition (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cryogenic Connection
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The INITIATING was a leaking deom a plumbing of a pipe.
Nothing is known on the ROOT CAUSE.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- pipe
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 300
- Property loss (offsite)
- 0
- Post-event summary
- 1.7 kg of hydrogen were lost.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Released amount
- 1.6748675246026
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
Report I-1992070729 of the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA: <br />
https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages&PortalPath=%… />
(accessed September 2024)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- PHMSA
