Event
- Event ID
- 830
- Quality
- Description
Fires and chain reactions involved more than 100 cylinders of hydrogen or other gases in a storage system.
The fire lasted for more than 5 hours and the neighbourhood has been affected by flying ignited debris projected by the explosion.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire followed by an explosion
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Component involved
- CGH2 cylinder(s)
- Failure mode
- rupture & ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2020
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen stationary storage
- Sub-application
- GH2 storage
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
compressed gas cylinders
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Location type
- Confined
- Location
- populated area
- Operational condition
- UNKNOWN
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
Fires developed in the neighbourhood due to flying debris of the explosion.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
ARIA data base
event no. 8029
