Overview
- Describes in detail all biomass materials and how to experimentally determine their fire risks
- Provides extensive numeric data on biomass fire risks
- Offers advice and guidance on the safe storage of biomass
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Energy (BRIEFSENERGY)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Industrial Position
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Keywords
About this book
This book consists of two parts, the first of which focuses on combustible solids, and the second on the industrial position concerning these materials. It includes practical data and information on all biomass sources, from woodchips to sewage sludge, as well as mixtures.
Biomass materials are rapidly becoming a fundamental energy source, and their consumption will surpass that of fossil fuels in the near future. The risk of explosion of biomass dust materials can lead to massive economic and human losses worldwide, and applies to every facility that produces, processes or handles these materials. A better understanding of the risk could help reduce the number of accidents; until now, however, no book has been published on the subject.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Nieves Fernandez-Anez finished her thesis on flammability of biomasses at the Universidad Politecnica of Madrid in 2016, where she was involved in experimental testing and data analyses concerning the explosibility of solid biofuels since her last years of undergraduate study. Afterwards, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher on fire safety at Imperial College of London with Professor Guillermo Rein, and is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Fire Safety and HSE Engineering, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.
Blanca Castells graduated from the Mining Engineering Technical School (Technical University of Madrid) with a Bachelor of Mining Technology Engineering in 2015 and an M.Sc. in Mining Engineering in 2017. She began her Ph.D. studies (at the same university) in 2017, focusing on the flammability properties of solid biomasses and biomass efficiency improvement through the torrefaction process. Since 2017, she has been working at the Laboratorio Oficial Madariaga, carrying out research activities such as flammability and thermal tests, but also as a mining engineer, in the context of an industrial safety for mining operations initiative commissioned by the Government of Spain.Isabel Amez Arenillas has been a Ph.D. student in the field of Industrial Safety at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) since 2018. Her research chiefly focuses on the flammability characteristics of ternary and quaternary gas mixtures regarding the flammability interval. From 2017 to 2019, she worked as a project engineer at the Laboratorio Oficial Madariaga (LOM), where she developed R&D projects in the Technical Assistance and Research Department and collaborated with the Quality Department in the context of equipment management.
The authors have released several publications on the topic, and have extensive experimental and theoretical experience in the field of dust explosions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Explosion Risk of Solid Biofuels
Authors: Nieves Fernandez-Anez, Blanca Castells Somoza, Isabel Amez Arenillas, Javier Garcia-Torrent
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Energy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43933-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43932-3Published: 08 April 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43933-0Published: 07 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2191-5520
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5539
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 104
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Energy Materials