Event
- Event ID
- 383
- Quality
- Description
A liquid-hydrogen tanker was on a journey to deliver to a customer. While performing a routine tire check, the driver discovered a leak in the plumbing. The driver brought the vehicle away from populated areas and sources of ignition and contacted the company terminal and its safety department. The product was transferred into another tanker. The leaking tanker was then sent to the shop for repairs.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- leak no ignition
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- cryogenic connection
- Failure mode
- leak, no ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root CAUSE analysis
The INITIATING was a leaking from a plumbing of a pipe.
Nothing is known on the ROOT CAUSE.- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2017
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
pipe
- Process temperature range [C]
- cryogenic temperature (below -50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- low to medium pressure (below 2 MPa)
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- highway or similar
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 300
- Post-event summary
1.7 kg of hydrogen were lost.
- Emergency action
The driver brought the vehicle away from populated areas and sources of ignition and contacted the company terminal and its safety department. The product was transferred into another trailer. The leaking trailer was then sent to the shop for repairs.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Released amount (kg)
- 1.6748675246026
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- PHMSA
- Reference & weblink
Report I-1992070729 of the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA:
https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages&PortalPath=%…
(accessed September 2024)
