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
- leak no ignition
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Component involved
- CGH2 tank (stationary)
- Failure mode
- rupture, no ignition
- Initiating cause
- conventional component failure (electricity, power)
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2018
Facility
- Application
- Electrical, electronics and micro-electronics industry
- Sub-application
- electrical components production
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
hydrogen storage system
- 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)
