Process safety is top of mind for most manufacturers in the process industries. During the general session at the NPRA 2010 Q&A and Technology Forum in Baltimore this week, the senior VP for refining at Sunoco, Anne-Marie Ainsworth, spoke about the need for...
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Burner Management Systems at Emerson Exchange
The annual Emerson Exchange technical conference is now just a week away. We hope you'll be able to join us in historic, San Antonio Texas for this exchange of expertise. If you're involved in process safety at your plant with equipment such as furnaces, boilers,...
Safety Instrumented Function-Focused Approach
Update and Bump: Here's information on Russell's and Andy's UK Safety Seminar Series. Emerson process safety experts Russell Cockman and Andy Crosland recently presented at the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) North West Members Group in the United Kingdom....
Technology Trends in Process Safety
Emerson's Mike Boudreaux shared a Control Engineering Asia article written by the renowned process safety expert, Paul Gruhn. The article, Providing Process Safety, analyzes some of the latest trends in safety instrumented systems (SIS) designs for the process...
More Thoughts on Executing IEC 61511 Process Safety Projects
Last Friday I highlighted thoughts from Emerson process safety expert, Len Laskowski in the post, Executing IEC 61511 Process Safety Projects. He shared more than I could fit in a single post, so today's post will share the balance. One of the points made by the...
Executing IEC 61511 Process Safety Projects
ControlGlobal.com has an excellent article on the global process safety standard, IEC 61511. The article, IEC 61511 Implementation - The Execution Challenge, shares the experiences of two Mustang Engineering process automation project veterans. I turned to one of...
ARC Update on DeltaV SIS
ARC Advisory Group's recently published ARC View, Emerson Brings DeltaV SIS into the Future with Version 11 Release, describes the continuing advancements of the DeltaV SIS safety instrumented system. DeltaV SIS launched over 5 years ago and this whitepaper provides...
Integrated Control and Safety System CapEx and OpEx Considerations
Process automation systems and safety instrumented systems (SIS) have been changing with the rapid pace of technology change. An ARC Advisory Group whitepaper, Business Issues Driving Safety System Integration, outlined some of the various ways automation suppliers...
Using HART Diagnostics in Your Safety Instrumented Systems
Emerson's Alan Harris has written a new whitepaper, DeltaV SIS HART Capabilities. It describes various HART capabilities that can be used with the DeltaV SIS system as well as HART diagnostics implementation best practices. For those unfamiliar with HART, the HART...
Modular Safety for Marine and Offshore Oil and Gas Production
Emerson's Wim van Loon and Rafael Lachmann presented Modular Safety Concept (MSC) for Marine & Offshore projects and the Value Proposition at Emerson Exchange. Their abstract: The current demands from the Marine and Offshore industry require low CAPEX, high amount...
Start with API RP 556 for Flame Detection Guidance
Some questions on flame detector reliability came my way the other day from a blog reader in the refining industry. I ran the questions by Emerson's Gary Hawkins, a refining industry consultant. Gary's first response was to point to the authoritative source for fired...
The Question of Common, Integrated, and Interfaced Safety Instrumented Systems
The question of integration with respect to safety instrumented systems (SIS) and basic process control systems (BPCS) continues unabated. Emerson's Mike Boudreaux alerted me to a great article, The Question of Integration, in the June issue of Control Engineering...
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