Event
- Event ID
- 1013
- Quality
- Description
Hydrogen leak due to a fault with non-process related battery equipment.
After reporting the hydrogen leak, fire crews have been called to a gas terminal. The leak was due to a fault with non-process related battery equipment.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- leak no ignition
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Date
- Component involved
- battery
- Failure mode
- rupture, no ignition
- Initiating cause
- accidental hydrogen formation
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2020
Facility
- Application
- Other
- Sub-application
- electrochemical battery storage
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
batteries
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
No reported injury
- Emergency action
Fire crews have been called after reporting of a hydrogen leak. Traffic temporarily stopped.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,
other battery gases - Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
Hull Daily news of 1 October 2020
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/live-gas-…
(accessed December 2020)
