INVESTIGADORES
NUÑEZ MC LEOD jorge eduardo
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Human Error in Biofuel Plants Accidents (Indexed by ISI-Thomson-Reuters)
Autor/es:
SELVA S. RIVERA; JORGE E. NÚÑEZ MC LEOD
Lugar:
Londres, Reino Unido
Reunión:
Congreso; World Congress on Engineering; 2008
Institución organizadora:
International Association of Engineering
Resumen:
Abstract— Actually, biofuel is an industry in expansion. Thereis a lot of plants installed in a lot of countries. These plants likeother chemical plants can have accidents with fatal consequences.Being an industrial facility, risks and dangers exist related totransport, storage and use of great amount of toxic chemicalsubstances and flammable and highly polluting vegetal oil tanks.In this work a gathering of biofuel plants accidents areevaluated. Some recommendations and conclusions are presented.Human reliability considerations are the main issue found.