Event
- Event ID
- 1190
- Quality
- Description
- Hydrogen leaked from a liquid hydrogen tank-trailer parked at a rest area of a highway.
The release was remarked as a plume of with vapour, plausibly caused by cold hydrogen release and vapour condensation.
Police, fire authorities, and Korea Gas Safety Corporation checked the amount of hydrogen leakage and the risk of explosion at the scene and mobilised the safety equipment required to complete the safe remove hydrogen from the tank, which happened in 6 hours.
There were no injuries or negative consequence to health. Nevertheless, dealing with the emergency caused severe congestion in the area. The rest area and a 13 km section of the highway were closed for more than three hours causing traffic chaos. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Leak No Ignition (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Piping (Weld)
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Material Degradation (Generic)
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The INITIATING CAUSE appears to be a leak at valve-pipe joint in the control cabinet at the rear of the tank.
The ROOT CAUSE is unknown
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- valve, pipe
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Property loss (onsite)
- 0
- Property loss (offsite)
- 0
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
There is not enough information to draw specific lesson n learnt, The only point deserving mentioning is that this incident confirm the general evidence that liquid hydrogen tank releases do not ignite often.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
Gasnews.com news<br />
https://www.gasnews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=121253<br />
(accessed August 2025)YonHap TV news<br />
https://www.yonhapnewstv.co.kr/news/MYH20250809194255754<br />
(accessed August 2025)YonHap TV news<br />
https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/liquid-hydrogen-leak-from-tan… />
(accessed August 2025)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News