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Accident Analysis of European Biogas Stations

KOTEK, L.; TRÁVNÍČEK, P.; BLECHA, P.

Original Title

Accident Analysis of European Biogas Stations

English Title

Accident Analysis of European Biogas Stations

Type

WoS Article

Original Abstract

The number of biogas stations continues to grow. Biomass is currently a very important source of renewable energy in Europe and bio-energy will play a key role in achieving the ambitious targets. It is generally known that the number of accidents increases with higher number of biogas units; therefore the role of their safety is increasingly important. The history of production of biogas in the industrial scale is relatively recent; there is not so much experience with safety as it is with other industrial processes. Experience can be taken from similar units, mainly from chemical industry. This paper is intended to describe a probability of possible major accidents associated with the operation of biogas stations. For 13,171 European biogas stations, more than 800 accidents were found out within the last 10 y, but most of them were accidents without any serious consequences; only three of them were serious with consequences for human lives.

English abstract

The number of biogas stations continues to grow. Biomass is currently a very important source of renewable energy in Europe and bio-energy will play a key role in achieving the ambitious targets. It is generally known that the number of accidents increases with higher number of biogas units; therefore the role of their safety is increasingly important. The history of production of biogas in the industrial scale is relatively recent; there is not so much experience with safety as it is with other industrial processes. Experience can be taken from similar units, mainly from chemical industry. This paper is intended to describe a probability of possible major accidents associated with the operation of biogas stations. For 13,171 European biogas stations, more than 800 accidents were found out within the last 10 y, but most of them were accidents without any serious consequences; only three of them were serious with consequences for human lives.

Keywords

biogas station, risk analysis, safety

Key words in English

biogas station, risk analysis, safety

Authors

KOTEK, L.; TRÁVNÍČEK, P.; BLECHA, P.

RIV year

2016

Released

29.05.2015

Publisher

AIDIC Servizi S.r.l.

Location

Miláno, Itálie

ISBN

2283-9216

Periodical

Chemical Engineering Transactions

Volume

2015

Number

43

State

Republic of Italy

Pages from

1933

Pages to

1938

Pages count

6

BibTex

@article{BUT114683,
  author="Luboš {Kotek} and Petr {Trávníček} and Petr {Blecha}",
  title="Accident Analysis of European Biogas Stations",
  journal="Chemical Engineering Transactions",
  year="2015",
  volume="2015",
  number="43",
  pages="1933--1938",
  doi="10.3303/CET1543323",
  issn="2283-9216"
}