Incidents Triggered by Failures of Level Sensors

Level gauging is a basic item of automatic and manual systems for preventing the overfilling of hazardous materials from atmospheric storage tanks. Failures or misuses of these sensors may trigger sever accidents, such as the Buncefield disaster in 2005. Some thirty short reports of minor incidents,...

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Main Authors: S. Ansaldi, P. Agnello, P. Bragatto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIDIC Servizi S.r.l. 2016-09-01
Series:Chemical Engineering Transactions
Online Access:https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/3623