Publication detail

Quantitative analyses of biogas plant accidents in Europe

TRÁVNÍČEK, P. KOTEK, L. JUNGA, P. VÍTĚZ, T. DRÁPELA, K. CHOVANEC, J.

English title

Quantitative analyses of biogas plant accidents in Europe

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

en

Original abstract

Rapid grow of biogas stations numbers across the Europe could be seen in recent past. This is also associated with an increase in the absolute number of operational accidents. In the opinion of experts who deal with safety engineering in the field of bioenergy installations, the number of accidents on biogas stations is growing faster than energy production from these stations. The aim of this paper is to open a discussion about interpretation and uncertainty of quantitative accidents assessment. For this purpose, 208 accidents of biogas stations were collected across Europe from 2006 to 2016. These data were statistically analysed. An integral part of the work is also the calculation of event frequencies for selected scenarios, which in the future can facilitate the decision making of risk experts in similar installations. The work also addresses issues related to the reduction of the risk level in the biogas station operations.

English abstract

Rapid grow of biogas stations numbers across the Europe could be seen in recent past. This is also associated with an increase in the absolute number of operational accidents. In the opinion of experts who deal with safety engineering in the field of bioenergy installations, the number of accidents on biogas stations is growing faster than energy production from these stations. The aim of this paper is to open a discussion about interpretation and uncertainty of quantitative accidents assessment. For this purpose, 208 accidents of biogas stations were collected across Europe from 2006 to 2016. These data were statistically analysed. An integral part of the work is also the calculation of event frequencies for selected scenarios, which in the future can facilitate the decision making of risk experts in similar installations. The work also addresses issues related to the reduction of the risk level in the biogas station operations.

Keywords in English

Accidents; Analysis; Biogas; Biogas stations; Europe

Released

01.07.2018

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd

ISSN

0960-1481

Volume

122

Number

July 2018

Pages from–to

89–97

Pages count

9

BIBTEX


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  author="Petr {Trávníček} and Luboš {Kotek} and Petr {Junga} and Tomáš {Vítěz} and Karel {Drápela} and Jan {Chovanec},
  title="Quantitative analyses of biogas plant accidents in Europe",
  year="2018",
  volume="122",
  number="July 2018",
  month="July",
  pages="89--97",
  publisher="Elsevier Ltd",
  issn="0960-1481"
}