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Process Safety Portal
Process Safety Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Welcome to Automation.com's portal for Process Safety with valuable information and resources for controls and automation engineers to design safe automation systems. Process safety includes components such as intrinsically safe sensors and enclosures to complete redundant safety shutdown systems. Control and automation engineers must design control systems to meet Process Safety Management (PSM) and Risk Management Program (RMP) requirements in facilities that handle, use, process or store extremely hazardous materials to minimize the likelihood and consequence of catastrophic incidents.
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Articles
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Burner Management System Safety Integrity Level Selection
By Michael D. Scott, AE Solutions Identifying the required amount of risk reduction is extremely important, especially when evaluating existing legacy burner management systems. Selection of an overly conservative Safety Integrity Level can have significant cost impacts. These costs will involve increased Safety Instrumented System functional testing or complete removal/upgrade of the existing burner management system. |
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Compliance with new pipeline rule offers opportunity to implement best practices
- 02/04/12 InTech, February 2012 By Russel Treat, EnerSys Many pipeline operators will spend substantial time and effort reworking their control rooms and systems to comply with the new Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s Control Room Management rule by 1 August 2012. Done right, this could significantly improve their operations. |
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket
- 01/29/12 Instrumentation, January 2012 By Andy Tonge, Hima-Sella The best approach to plant-wide safety is to ring-fence critical hardware with layers of protection that are independent of process control. |
White Papers
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Improving Safety in Oil and Gas Production
- 12/21/11 Automation.com, December 2011 By United Electric Controls This white paper examines the changing oil and gas production safety environment, explores solutions, and outlines the advantagesthat can result. |
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Simplifying Plant Safety Instrumentation
- 12/21/11 Automation.com, December 2011 By United Electric Controls For point safety applications, a properly designed and implemented digital switch with self-diagnostics can be an important part of the solution. |
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Safety in Drives
- 11/21/11 Automation.com, November 2011 By Mikko Ristolaine, ABB Offerings from safe stopping to more elaborate monitoring functions are being introduced and are heralding new opportunities in machine safety. |
Application Stories
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Level instrumentation works in Nuclear Decommissioning
- 01/23/12 Vega level sensors are being used in the decommissioning of the Dounreay nuclear plant in north Scotland. |
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Digital architecture helps tank farm meet safety requirements
- 01/29/12 Industrial Ethernet Book, February 2012 Emerson’s wireless level and pressure transmitters and a plant-wide wireless network have been used to automate tank storage level monitoring in Sweden, improving safety and reducing costs. |
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SIS replacement project at refinery
- 01/11/12 Control Engineering Europe, January 2012 Petroplus is replacing SIS equipment that protects the Naphtha Hydrotreating and Continuous Catalytic Reformer processing units. The SIS is to be implemented using two HIMA HiQuad H51q-HS Programmable Electronic Systems. |
Resources & Literature
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Machine & Process Safety Engineering Guide
Omron Scientific Technologies introduces the 2011-2012 Guide to Machine and Process Safeguarding. The guide also highlights Omron STI’s Safety Library with access to educational resource material including fully-illustrated articles on safety regulations and directives, risk assessment, types of protective measures and background on safety technologies. |
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Safety Instrumented Systems: Design, Analysis, and Justification, 2nd Edition - $99.00
This revised best-seller addresses the increased realization that today’s engineering systems - and the computers used to control them - are capable of large-scale destruction. This book is a practical how-to text on the analysis, design, application and installation of safety instrumented systems. |
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Control Systems Safety Evaluation and Reliability, 3rd Edition - $109.00
This third edition provides the detailed background necessary to understand how to meet important new safety regulations and reliability engineering topics. Professional control system designers will learn to properly evaluate control system components, various system architectures, how to better communicate with vendors, and how to increase accuracy of life-cycle cost estimates. |
Training News
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Safety Instrumented Systems Training Course - Electronic Download
This course on Safety Instrumented Systems is designed to make the learning experience comfortable and easy. Everything is explained in easy to understand terms, with plenty of graphics, interactive simulations and worked problems. Everything that you need to know about Safety Instrumented Systems, put together, in an easily digestible form, stripped of all the complexity, but still useful to impart skills to you that you can actually use in your work. |
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Gas Monitors Training Course - Electronic Download or Online 14-Day Access
This self-paced training course which covers all of these aspects of Gas Monitors. Learn how these instruments work, what do they measure, how to select them, install them, calibrate them & maintain them. The subject is explained by means of text, rich graphics, Flash based animations, real-life plant photos and videos and interactive simulation exercises. There is also a self-assessment test & a glossary. |
Training & Seminars
Product Announcements
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Endress+Hauser Introduces Installed Base Audit Program
- 02/05/12
The Installed Base Audit simplifies measurement device maintenance, helps a plant conform to various regulations and safety requirements, and reduces its Total Cost of Ownership. |
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COOPER Crouse-Hinds extends explosion-proof nLLK 10 light fittings
- 02/01/12
The 2x35W version for fluorescent lamps is certified for use in Zones 2 and 22 in accordance with European Directive (ATEX) and IECEx standards. |
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Advantech announces UNO-1100H Embedded Automation Computers
- 01/05/12
UNO-1140FH, UNO-1150GH, UNO-1150GHE, and UNO-1172AH received Class I, Division 2 (Group A, B, C, D) certification expanding their uses to hazardous locations. |
Company & Organization News
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Alpha Wire Adds CSA Tray Cable Rating
- 01/30/12 Per the Canadian Electrical Code (CEC), this rating is required when installing cables into tray applications. |
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Magnetrol radar level sensor receives SIL 3 certification
- 01/25/12 Exida certified the Eclipse Model 705 Guided Wave Radar Transmitter as Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capable per IEC 61508. |
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Grace Engineered Products to be on 21st Century Business TV show
- 01/23/12 The show will cover Permanent Electrical Safety Devices. |
Project News
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Honeywell to control Australia Pacific LNG Project
- 11/28/11 Honeywell will provide automation, safety and security solutions for a new multi-train liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Queensland. |
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PAS to provide Alarm Systems to Qatargas
- 11/15/11 Qatargas, the world’s largest LNG producer, will install PAS PlantState Suite alarm management software across all their units. |
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ABB to maintain oil fields in Norway
- 10/31/11 ABB signed a three-year agreement worth $33 million with BP Norway for maintenance, modification and service of safety and automation systems of oil field operations on the Norwegian continental shelf. |
Event News
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Industrial Supply 2012 Showcases U.S. Industrial Subcontractors
- 12/06/11 Leaders in the subcontracting business will be presenting their latest product developments in industrial materials to a vast audience attending HANNOVER MESSE. |
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HANNOVER MESSE 2012 focuses on sustainability
- 11/21/11 By adopting "greentelligence" as its keynote theme, HANNOVER MESSE 2012 has put the spotlight squarely on green technologies as a central growth driver for industry. |
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Rockwell Automation Celebrates 20 Years of Automation Fair
- 10/17/11 Manufacturers, machine builders, partners, industry analysts and media from around the world will meet Nov. 16-17 at McCormick Place in Chicago for the 20th anniversary of Automation Fair. |
Events
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