Event
- Event ID
- 822
- Quality
- Description
- A leak occurred in a vehicle carrying 218 cylinders of hydrogen. The contents of 28 cylinders, 90 m³ of hydrogen, escaped.
A security perimeter was set up with stop of the road and rail traffic. - 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?
- Joint/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 cylinders truck
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- cylinders
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- The capacity in mass of hydrogen was calcualted assuming that the value of 90 m3 provided by the source represents a volume of hydrogen at standard conditions.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- 90 m³ (ca. 8 kg) of hydrogen, escaped
A security perimeter was set up with stop of the road and rail traffic.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Released amount
- 7.5
- Actual pressure (MPa)
- 20
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
ARIA data base <br />
event no. 1361
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
