Event
- Event ID
- 932
- Quality
- Description
- A leak of 700 l of gaseous hydrogen was detected on a connection of a rack of cylinders on a trailer truck loacated in an aircraft plant (the plant was classified Seveso, lower tier).
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Leak No Ignition (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Cylinder (Connection)
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- compressed hydrogen trailers, cylinders pallet
- Location type
- Unknown
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Released amount
- 0.06
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
Event description in the French database ARIA<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/44458/<br />
(accessed September 2020)<br />
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
