Event
- Event ID
- 996
- Quality
- Description
The tanker crashed into the guardrail on a ring ramp leading to a highway.
The vehicle overturned, and the tubes unit plunged more than 20 meters onto a road below.
Witnesses reported multiple explosions which could be heard up to two kilometres away.[Taiwan English News of 30 September 2020.]
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Taiwan
- Date
- Component involved
- CGH2 tube (trailer)
- Failure mode
- rupture & ignition
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
The hydrogen release and explosion was caused by the crash of the trailer against the rail of the highway. The ROOT AUSE, in absence of further detail, can be attributed to the driver losing control of the vehicle.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2024
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
hydrogen trailer
- 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
- 1
- Number of injured persons
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
Text and images extracted from the Taiwan English News of 30 September 2020.
