Event
- Event ID
- 267
- Quality
- Description
An explosion occurred during testing of the hydrogen feeding of an engine in the Spatial Agency Centre.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Japan
- Date
- Component involved
- pipe (generic)
- Failure mode
- unknown
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Non-road vehicles
- Sub-application
- Aerospace
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
Space shuttle engine
- Location type
- Semiconfined
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
- UNKNOWN
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Emergency action
An explosion occurs during testing of the hydrogen feeding of an engine in the Spatial Agency Centre.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
Event 3357 in the French database ARIA
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/3357/
(accessed October 2020)
