Event
- Event ID
- 130
- Quality
- Description
Leaking hydrogen gas ignited causing a fire at a power plant.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- pipe (generic)
- Failure mode
- leak
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Power plant
- Sub-application
- unspecified power plant
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
H2 coolant loop
- Process temperature range [C]
- Above ambient temperature (50°C to 100°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- low to medium pressure (below 2 MPa)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 1
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- FireWorld
- Reference & weblink
The link to FireWorld magazine is lost
