Safety Assessment of Biofuel Production Technologies

It is mandatory that the safety of a process plant fulfills a certain required level and standards. This is because of general legal requirements, besides the indirect benefits to the image and economic performance of a company. Therefore, safety should influence process decisions from the first moments of the design project. One of the existing studies adopted the well-established hazard and operability (HAZOP) method for safety assessment of biofuel process (Jeerawongsuntom et al., 2011). 

Using the simulated biodiesel production process as case study, basically Jeerawongsuntom and team (2011) integrated the human-machine interface with HAZOP analysis for safety protection. Safety instmmented system was developed to create interlocks such as automatic shutdown to prevent the system from being exposed to extreme or 

Jayswal et al. (2011) also conducted a similar kind of work on biodiesel production 

Overall, from the review of these earlier works, attempts to incorporate safety in designing or operating a safer biofuel production system have already started. However, the works 

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