Event
- Event ID
- 134
- Quality
- Description
- A hydrogen tank exploded and caught fire at a chemical plant.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Storage Vessel
- How was it involved?
- Rupture & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Chemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Not specified
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- hydrogen tank
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Emergency action
- The alarm was given by a construction worker who was nearby and heard a loud "bang".
The plant supervisor inspected the scene and ordered an emergency stop.
13:01, an emergency stop operation was started in the instrument room.
13:10 The affected tower could be disconnected from other units and the emergency release valve was opened to reduce the tower pressure from 50 bar to 1.5 bar. After decompression, cooling water was sprinkled and water was injected into the tower to raise the liquid level above the leak point.
13:25 The fire was extinguished
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
