In a Hydrocarbon Engineering article, Improving safety shutdown valve reliability, Emerson’s Stanley Amirthasamy and Lura Parrent share ways to improve the reliability of final elements when they are safety valves. They open noting how safety valves are used to bring a process to a safe state.
Safety
How Industrial Facilities Are Prioritizing Safety with Advanced Location Technology
Enabled by WirelessHART® technology, advanced location technology offers an added level of safety for at-work employees, visitors, and contractors. Learn how a site-specific location solution streamlines safety processes while addressing up to 70% of recordable injuries.
Chemical Industry Solutions for Safety Performance Improvements
In an AIChE recorded webinar, Digital Innovations for Improving Safety in Chemical Plants, Emerson’s Michael Machuca and Marty McDonough highlight was to drive safety improvements for this important industry.
Understanding API 2350 for Storage Tank Overfill Prevention
In a Tank Storage article, Overfill Prevention, Emerson’s Richard Ireland shares updates about the API 2350 standard 5th edition (published September 1, 2000) which addresses overfill prevention in these storage tanks.
Advanced Sensor Technology in Safety Instrumented Functions
In a Process Engineering article, Improve the reliability of safety instrumented systems with advanced measurement technologies, Emerson’s Julie Valentine and Meha Jha share how technology advancements combined with best practices helps drive process safety improvements.
Safer Operations with Online Corrosion and Erosion Monitoring
Emerson’s Kevin Thomas discussed corrosion and erosion monitoring at the 4C Health, Safety & Environmental conference. Kevin opened citing some statistics.
Reducing Tank Venting Equipment Fugitive Emissions
At the 4C Health, Safety & Environmental conference, Emerson’s Derek Kelly highlighted ways to reduce fugitive emissions from tank venting equipment.
Driving Safer Operations
At the 4C Health, Safety & Environmental conference in Austin, Emerson’s Ed Schodowski and Doug White presented on ways to address safety issues that relate to process , loss of containment and occupational trends, regulations and other factors that affect plants.
Meeting the measurement challenges presented by LNG
Level and temperature measurement technology plays a key role in modern liquefied natural gas (LNG) tank gauging systems. In a Control Engineering Europe article, ‘Increasing safety and optimizing tank usage at LNG terminals’, Victoria Lund Mattsson, a solutions...
Emerson at August 18-20 4C Health, Safety, Environmental Conference
A key conference for health, safety and environmental (HSE) is the 4C Health, Safety, and Environmental Conference. The 2021 conference will take place next week, August 18-20 here in Austin, Texas.
Addressing Common Misconceptions in Safety System Configuration
Traditional safety systems have a centralized architecture, meaning that a large processor unit runs hundreds of safety instrumented functions (SIF). Modern safety systems have a distributed architecture where multiple smaller processor units execute dozens of SIFs....
Fail-Safe Electric Actuators in Safety Applications
In a recorded webinar, Smart Electric Valve Actuators for Critical Fail-Safe Applications, Emerson’s Knut Riegel and Umberto Bianchi share how these actuators are well-suited for emergency shutdown (ESD) applications.
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