Event
- Event ID
- 201
- Quality
- Description
Due to unsealing of flange connection in a heat exchanger, hydrogen leaked and ignited. At 20 m height, under pressure of 0,25 MPa.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Poland
- Date
- Component involved
- heat exchanger (flange)
- Failure mode
- leak & ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/02/2009
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical industry
- Sub-application
- Unspecified refinery process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
flange connection at heat exchanger.
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- low to medium pressure (below 2 MPa)
- Location type
- Semiconfined
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
- UNKNOWN
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Emergency action
The company fire brigade extinguished the fire.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Release pressure [MPa]
- 0.25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- Unknown
- Reference & weblink
source lost
