Event
- Event ID
- 231
- Quality
- Description
This was event took place at a heat-electric power plant, while perfroming tests using the reserve power generator. Hydrogen used as coolant and motor oil on the engine rotor ignited. The alarm was registered at 11:26 and the fire was extinguished at 12:03.
It did not affect the operation of the main power plant.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Russia
- Date
- Component involved
- H2 coolant system
- Failure mode
- leak & ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Power plant
- Sub-application
- Combined Heat and Power generation
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
H2 seal, H2 coolant system, generator
- Process temperature range [C]
- Above ambient temperature (50°C to 100°C)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- unknown
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- Gas-liquid mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,
oil - Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- FireWorld
- Reference & weblink
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