Event
- Event ID
- 820
- Quality
- Description
- A pipe of a hydrogen storage system (240 m³) ruptured. The staff was evacuated and a perimeter of protection is put in place.
- 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?
- Pipe
- How was it involved?
- Rupture & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Stationary Storage
- Sub-application
- Pipeline
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- A pipeline on a hydrogen storage
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
ARIA data base event no. 275<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/275/<br />
(accessed January 2025)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
