Event
- Event ID
- 851
- Quality
- Description
- The leak occurred on a process pipe of a pressurized at 17 bar and located 3.5 m from the ground The gaseous mixture composed of hydrogen, methane and hydrogen sulphide (density: 0.6) was released to the atmosphere.
The operator evacuated a hundred employees, stopped production and put the establishment in the safe mode.
The emergency plan is triggered. Water curtains are put into action and measurements of toxicity and explosimetry are carried out.
After a hour the pressure in the pipe reduced 0.5 bar and the measurements of toxicity and explosimetry in the ambient air returned to satisfactory level. The emergency plan was terminated.
Public firefighters are on site but did not intervene. - 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
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Generic refinery process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- pressurised gas process pipe (17 bar) located 3.5 m from the ground
- Location type
- Open
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,
CH4,
H2S - Actual pressure (MPa)
- 1.7
- Design pressure (MPa)
- 1.7
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
ARIA data base <br />
event no. 39045
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA