Event
- Event ID
- 1048
- Quality
- Description
- A mixture of mainly carbon monoxide and hydrogen was released from a pipe transferring process gases in a not further specified unit of a chemical plant. The released gases formed a flammable mixture which ignited possibly due to static electricity and resulting in 22 deaths and 8 injuries.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Pipe
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Hc-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- unspecified
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- process gases feed line
- Location type
- Open
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 8
- Number of fatalities
- 22
- Post-event summary
- 22 deaths and 8 injuries
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,
CO - Presumed ignition source
- Static electricity
References
- Reference & weblink
Government site reporting incidents: <br />
https://www.mem.gov.cn/fw/jsxx/202106/t20210630_390326.shtml <br />
(last retrieved 20.02.2023)B.Wang et al., Hydrogen related accidents and lesson learned from events reported in the<br />
in east continental Asia,#2023, ICHS-2023
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
