Micaela Demichela

In Cuba, more than 50 % of the electricity generation capacity is based on small-scale distribute...d power plants, which guarantee the energy supply-demand from fossil fuels. Several negative environmental impacts are associated with this, including contamination by oily residuals.

Following the implementation of international and national regulations and standards pertaining t...he control of risks in different industrial and civil domains, a general increase of the safety knowledge was noticed and recognized in literature (e.g. Lee & Harrison, 2000). Indeed, different campaigns to rise the awareness of the general public were developed and implemented.

The Human Factors contribution in the scope of the industrial process optimization presented in t...his case study had to deal with considerations regarding the physical and mental workload requirements of different workstations and the capabilities of the operators assigned to them. The scope was to provide the industrial management with a better way to allocate human resources to tasks having different workload requirements.

Due to the wide application of oil in industry, large amounts of petroleum hydrocarbons have been... annually released into the environment.
Legacy contamination and its interaction with other risks, continue impacting a new generation of residents in the fence-line communities.
The goal was to characterize the hydrocarbon pollution which could impact on the community living near to an oil plant. A Cuban oil

Energy saving is an important issue for any industrial sector; in particular, for the process ind...ustry, it can help to minimize both energy costs and environmental impact. Maintenance optimization and operational procedures can offer margins to increase energy efficiency in process plants, even if they are seldom explicitly taken into account in the predictive models guiding the energy saving policies.