Event
- Event ID
- 910
- Quality
- Description
A fire started on the brakes of a truck carrying hydrogen.
Due to the risk of extension of the fire to the hydrogen, the fire brigade install an emergency area until the fire is extinguished.
There has been no release of hydrogen.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Component involved
- CGH2 tube (trailer)
- Failure mode
- damage, no release
- Initiating cause
- conventional component failure (fire-brakes)
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2018
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
Truck transporting hydrogen
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- medium to high pressure (10 to 50 MPa)
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- highway or similar
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
Event description in French database ARIA
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/4839/
(accessed September 2020)
