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Prevention of accidents to storage tanks for liquid products used in agriculture

TRÁVNÍČEK, P. KOTEK, L. JUNGA, P. KOUTNÝ, T NOVOTNÁ, J. VÍTĚZ, T.

Originální název

Prevention of accidents to storage tanks for liquid products used in agriculture

Typ

článek v časopise ve Web of Science, Jimp

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

The storage of liquid substances like livestock slurry, liquid fertilizer, digested material and many others is an integral part of farms. The storage is realized in tanks with a volume of several cubic meters up to several thousand cubic meters. Various materials such as steel, reinforced concrete, plastics and combinations of these materials are used to construct such containers, less often wood or composite materials. Compared to the chemical industry, the stored substances are not toxic to the human body, and in the event of accidents, only minimal damage to human health is usually caused. Hazardousness of stored substances consist of harmfulness to the environment, mainly due to the high concentration of these substances. In particular, water resources are threatened, both surface water and underground drinking water sources. In general, agriculture is often overlooked sectors. Despite that it is a crucial sector for human existence. As is the case with the safety of operation of technological equipment. In the field of chemical industry hundreds of publications have been written on this subject; in the field of agriculture, these publications are rather an exception. Employees working in the chemical industry are regularly trained to deal with emergencies, with employees in the agricultural sector this is an exception. It is clear from various reports that the accident is not avoided even in this sector. The authors collected a total of 241 records of accidents resulting in leakage of stored material from the tanks. Relative number of accidents causes by human error is 17%, organizational causes 20.7%, external causes 20.7%, and other causes 14.1%. Unknown causes were found in 27.4%. The data were statistically processed and selected emergency scenarios was described in more detail. The output of the work is recommendations for the safe operation of storage tanks.

Klíčová slova

Accident; Agriculture; Environment; Europe; Statistical analysis

Autoři

TRÁVNÍČEK, P.; KOTEK, L.; JUNGA, P.; KOUTNÝ, T; NOVOTNÁ, J.; VÍTĚZ, T.

Vydáno

31. 8. 2019

Nakladatel

Institution of Chemical Engineers

Místo

London

ISSN

0957-5820

Periodikum

Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Ročník

128

Číslo

August 2019

Stát

Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Strany od

193

Strany do

202

Strany počet

10

URL

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957582019305592

BibTex

@article{BUT160542,
  author="TRÁVNÍČEK, P. and KOTEK, L. and JUNGA, P. and KOUTNÝ, T and NOVOTNÁ, J. and VÍTĚZ, T.",
  title="Prevention of accidents to storage tanks for liquid products used in agriculture",
  journal="Process Safety and Environmental Protection",
  year="2019",
  volume="128",
  number="August 2019",
  pages="193--202",
  doi="10.1016/j.psep.2019.05.035",
  issn="0957-5820",
  url="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957582019305592"
}