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

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216305:26210/19:PU134360

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2019.05.035" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2019.05.035</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2019.05.035" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.psep.2019.05.035</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

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

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20306 - Audio engineering, reliability analysis

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Process Safety and Environmental Protection

ISSN

0957-5820

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

128

Issue of the periodical within the volume

August

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

193-202

UT code for WoS article

000476942000019

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85067081087