Event
- Event ID
- 27
- Quality
- Description
Damage of shipping containers of a ship, due to the reaction of phosphor pentoxide with wine, which lead to the production of phosphoric acid and hydrogen. The overpressure was successfully eliminated by ventilating the storage space.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- leak no ignition
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Date
- Component involved
- ship
- Failure mode
- internal explosion
- Initiating cause
- run-away reaction
- Root CAUSE analysis
The INITIATING CAUSE was a chemical reaction having hydrogen as product, which ignited.
The ROOT CAUSE could be tentatively assigned to an inadequate risk assessment, able to identify this accidental scenario.- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Non-road vehicles
- Sub-application
- Maritime goods transport
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
high pressure spherical vessel, leakage along the weld
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- harbour or waterborne
- 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
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- Scientific article
- Reference & weblink
Kier and Müller, 1983; A.M. Kreiser, G. Fröhlich, H. Eichert, A.Schatz, IKE Universität Stuttgart ISSN 0173-6892, April 1994Analyse von Störfällen mit Wasserstoff in bisherigen Anwendungsbereichen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von LH2
Bockholts and Koehorst, 1992
