Event
- Event ID
- 1098
- Quality
- Description
- Hydrogen caused an explosion at a power plant, killing two people and injuring 13 others. The station was subsequently shut down. The cause of the explosion was not reported. At first, sources reported that the incident occurred in hydrogen generation unit, later it was reported that it occurred at a hydrogen storage tank, located in a separate part of the power station and unrelated with the generator.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Vessel (Stationary)
- How was it involved?
- Explosion (H2-Air Mixture)
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The sources of this event claimed tentatively various causes, from lack of safety supervision to unsafe working procedures to procedural non-compliance up to contaminated hydrogen (?). None of these claims seems based on convincing evidences.
Facility
- Application
- Power Plant
- Sub-application
- coal-fired power plant
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- unknown
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Description of the facility/unit/process/substances
- The power plant covered a considerable part of the electricity needs of Kosovo.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 13
- Number of fatalities
- 2
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Post-event summary
- The power plant was closedfor a long time, and only partially re-opened.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Gulf Time news of June 06, 2014:<br />
https://www.gulf-times.com/story/395189/two-killed-in-kosovo-power-plan… />
(accessed 2023)RTE news of May 22, 2014:<br />
https://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0606/622005-kosovo/<br />
(Accessed December 2023)Wikipedia page dedicated to the plant, mentions the incident:<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_A_Power_Station<br />
(accessed December 2023)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News