If you work with pumps in your facility, you may be familiar with the Empowering Pumps site, a wealth of information to help you with these important assets in your plant. Founder Charli K. Matthews has launched something similar for valves, Empowering Valves. I had...
IEC 61511
Flame Detection and Minimizing False Alarms
Process manufacturers with hazardous areas in their process are responsible for the safety of the process through the IEC 61511 safety lifecycle—from initial design through decommissioning. Flame monitoring is often an important component in risk mitigation. Emerson's...
Functional Safety and Tank Overfill Prevention
As global oil and gas production continues to fan out to new areas, the need for storage tanks and terminal facilities as part of the distribution processes increases. Making sure those tanks are not overfilled is paramount for safety, environmental protection, and...
10 Ways to Improve Functional Safety
ISA Portugal recently hosted a conference on functional safety. Emerson's Russell Cockman, whom you may recall from earlier safety-related posts, presented 10 ways to improve functional safety without worrying where to put the decimal point in the calculation. From...
Separate Versus Integral Final Element Accessories in Safety Applications
Final elements such as safety shutdown valves, emergency isolation valves, blowdown valves, etc., in safety instrumented functions (SIFs) are equipped with various accessories such as digital valve controllers, solenoid valves (SOV), and volume boosters, to name a...
Power Generation Seminar and Technology Fair
For readers based in the U.K. or with travel plans that brings you there next week, I wanted to highlight an Emerson Power Generation Seminar & Technology Fair taking place next week. The first session will be October 22 in Glasgow and the second one will be...
Field Device Local Display in Process Safety Applications
One of the great things about conferences such as last week's Emerson Exchange Americas conference is reconnecting face-to-face with people where some time has passed. I had the chance to connect with Emerson's Riyaz Ali, whose expertise I've highlighted in several...
Fired Heater Safety and Burner Management Systems
Back in March in a post, Safety System Considerations for Process Fired Heaters, I shared some thoughts from a presentation by Emerson's Nikki Bishop and David Sheppard. The good news is that their thoughts are now available in a PTQ article, Role of fired heater...
High Pressure Protective Systems for Oil and Gas Producers
A North Carolina State University course, Introduction to Fugitive Emissions Monitoring, defines fugitive emissions as: …used in air quality control, generally refers to any emission escaping from regulated processes (sources) other than via the designed release point...
LNG Storage Tank Level Measurement
Yesterday, we highlighted the role of mass-based flow measurement in liquefied natural gas (LNG) custody transfer applications. Today, I wanted to highlight the role of radar tank gauging technology in LNG tank storage applications. I'll point the LNG Tank Gauging...
Fired Heater Safety Standards and Burner Management
In an earlier post, Safety System Considerations for Process Fired Heaters, I highlighted an American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) paper by Emerson's Nikki Bishop and Dave Sheppard. In this post, I'll share the safety system design, selection and...
Overfill Prevention Standard and Path Forward
One of Europe's leading events for the tank terminal industry is StocExpo, going on this week in Antwerp, Belgium. The Emerson team is there showing tank gauging and terminal management solutions. I had the opportunity to get my hands on a presentation being given...
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