Recently at the International Health, Safety, Environment, and Loss Prevention Conference in Kuwait, Emerson's David Walker had the opportunity to present on the topic of process safety. His presentation, Using a Smart Safety Instrumented System (SIS) to Make Better...
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Three Years Sharing Emerson’s Expertise
If you'll pardon some self-indulgence, today marks the final day of my third year of the Emerson Process Experts blog. Time flies when you're having fun! It began with this February 28, 2006 welcome post. The mission of the blog has remained largely the same over the...
Volume Tank Considerations in Process Safety Applications
Update: A blog visitor asked about the volume tank sizing calculations, Here's a link to the Fisher Type 377 Trip Valve Bulletin which includes volume sizing calculations on page 8. I saw a great process safety article in InTech magazine titled, When failsafe isn't...
The Prescriptive Approach to Process Safety for Oil & Gas Producers
Emerson's DeltaV SIS product manager, Mike Boudreaux, whom I've featured in several process safety-related posts, manages two great sources of information on safety instrumented systems (subscribe) and process safety. My subscription to the safety instrumented systems...
Considering the Tradeoffs in Safety-Certified Sensors
Emerson's Dale Perry alerted me to a great article on safety-certified sensors in the November 2008 issue of Control Engineering magazine. Dale manages the Rosemount pressure measurement line of products. The article, Practice Safe Sensing; Safety-certified sensors...
Safety Compliance for European Chemical Manufacturers
I recently heard a presentation from one of our Chemical industry experts, Peter Cox, an Operations Consultant based in our Emerson Belgium office. Peter spent 14 years with BASF in various engineering and management positions before joining Emerson. One of the key...
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