Event
- Event ID
- 1101
- Quality
- Description
According to local news, a "hydrogen tanker truck hauling was on fire" at a travel centre on a highway. The videos show, however, simply a flame from what probably is the pressure relief device of the tank.
All businesses in the area and the highway were evacuated as crews investigated the incident. The evacuation remains in place to the morning of the day after.
While one video shows a continuous and rather stable flame, another video shows an intermittent jet fire, possibly caused by a valve opening and closing and releasing ignited hydrogen.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- PRD (valve)
- Failure mode
- rupture & ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root CAUSE analysis
It seems plausible to attribute the incident to the opening of a pressure relief device. It is however unclear if this was a failure of the material of the device, or a response to an increase of the internal pressure.
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/07/2024
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
unknown
- 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
- Property loss (onsite)
- 0
- Emergency action
All businesses in the area were evacuated as crews investigated the incident. The evacuation remains in place to the morning of the day after. The fire brigades kept throwing water on the tank.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Released amount (kg)
- 536.33610900833
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
Reddit video
https://www.reddit.com/r/Truckers/comments/1362ai3/hydrogen_tanker/?utm…
(accesssed January 2025)Queen City news video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRKkqb32v2o
(accessed December 2023)WCNC news
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/businesses-evacuated-after-hy…
(accessed Decemebr 2023)