ANÁLISIS DE PELIGROS Y OPERATIVIDAD (HAZOP) EN LA FABRICACIÓN DE CLINKER: IMPACTO EN LA SALUD Y SUS COSTOS

Abstract

Cement manufacturing plays an important role in the development of infrastructure in Ecuador and around the world, in order of demand for this product the cement industry operates throughout the year and 24 hours a day. The continuous use of the installations, process or human failures, and even the lack of follow-up of short-term actions can become major factors in the generation of accidents and incidents. This study through the hazard and operability assessment (HAZOP) contributes to the detection of internal anomalies in the manufacturing process, the determination of the causes, consequences and implementation of corrective actions. In the evaluation, a total of 14 nodes were established, of those, the critical node with the greatest number of abnormalities was identified, this being the preheater area. Additionally, the cost of implementation, the current method of chamber cleaning with manual use of lance, was analyzed, in comparison with the proposed method of use of high pressure pump, with this contribution it is estimated to reduce the exposure time of 80%. assigned operator and its operating costs