Event
- Event ID
- 903
- Quality
- Description
Following a loss of power the failure of a backup battery caused an alarm in a hydrogen storage facility. Consequently, a valve on the purge circuit activated and 30 m3 of hydrogen were released to the atmosphere.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- release, no ignition
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Component involved
- CGH2 tank (stationary)
- Failure mode
- rupture
- Initiating cause
- conventional component failure
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2018
Facility
- Application
- Electrical, electronics and micro-electronics industry
- Sub-application
- electrical and/or electronic components production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
CGH2 storage system
- Process temperature range [C]
- unknown
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- unknown
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- populated area
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
The incident was initiated by a power failure which triggered of the backup system
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
30 m3 of hydrogen released to the atmosphere
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Released amount (kg)
- 2.7
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
Original description in database ARIA https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/15757/ (accessed September 2020)
