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Fire on a hydrogen generator in a power plant

Event

Event ID
166
Quality
Description

A hydrogen generator overheated during testing and started a small fire in 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
unknown
Failure mode
fire (generic)
Initiating cause
over-heating
Root CAUSE analysis

A hydrogen generator overheated during testing and started a small fire in a power plant.

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

Hydrogen generator

Location type
Unknown
Location
industrial area
Operational condition
Pre-event occurrences

Testing of hydrogen generator

Emergency & Consequences

Number of fatalities
0
Number of injured persons
0

In-depth data

Release type
gas
Involved substances (% vol)
H2 100%
Probable IGNITION SOURCE

References

Sources categories
FireWorld
Reference & weblink

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