Event
- Event ID
- 830
- Quality
- Description
- Fires and chain reactions involved more than 100 cylinders of hydrogen or other gases in a storage system.
The fire lasted for more than 5 hours and the neighbourhood has been affected by flying ignited debris projected by the explosion. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire Followed By An Explosion (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Cylinder(S)
- 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
- Compressed hydrogen bottles
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- compressed gas cylinders
- Location type
- Confined
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- Fires developed in the neighbourhood due to flying debris of the explosion.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
ARIA data base <br />
event no. 8029
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
