Event
- Event ID
- 903
- Quality
- Description
- Following a loss of power the failure of a backup battery causes an alarm in a hydrogen storage facility. Consequently, a valve on the purge circuit and 30 m3 of hydrogen is released to the atmosphere.
- 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
- Root CAUSE analysis
- INITIATING cause is power failure on a safety circuit.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Stationary Storage
- Sub-application
- unspecified
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- hydrogen storage system
- Location type
- Unknown
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- The incident was initiated by a power failure which triggered of the backup system
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- 30 m3 of hydrogen released to the atmosphere
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Released amount
- 2.7
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
Original description in database ARIA<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/15757/<br />
(accessed September 2020)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
