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