Dear saakj:
To receive the latest automation information, add enews@automation.com to your address book.
Read the online version if links don't work in this Process Safety Update. | | | August 2009 | Sponsor: Omron STI | Machine & Process Safety Engineering Guide .jpg)
Omron Scientific Technologies, Inc. introduces the 2009-2010 Guide to Machine and Process Safeguarding. This comprehensive resource includes all the latest essential information and selection guidelines on their most popular safety solutions, and highlights products that are available for delivery in five days or less. As with past editions, the guide features a "safety library" with more than 100 pages of educational resource material, making it so much more than a standard product catalog. Request your free guide. | Visit our Automation Portals | Our Automation Portals organize information on various topics and include content published on Automation.com as well as other industry websites. Each portal includes new products, company news, articles, white papers, application stories, training, resources, events, and more. Visit these one-stop sites for all your automation information | Live News Feed | | | | | In this Issue |  | | Featured Articles | Safety via Fieldbus—Hanging by a Wire?
Control Engineering, June 2008
By Peter Welander
Fieldbus is breaking new ground in discrete and process safety networks, a bastion of hard-wired systems. Users are drawn by promises of easier troubleshooting and maintenance. Safety first
InTech, June 2009
By Jim McConahay
Companies are now actively taking steps to comply with safety standards such as ANSI/ISA 84 and IEC 61508/61511. To accomplish this, safety practitioners look to equipment designed and approved for use in Safety Instrumented Systems (SISs). High-integrity overflow protection
InTech, June 2009
By Chris O’Brien
Vessel overflow protection systems seem so simple, so straightforward—that is until one of them fails to work properly and your plant is the six o’clock news Safety standards deliver perception and reality
HazardEX, April 2009
Currently the development and implementation of functional safety management systems appears to be driven by safety system suppliers. However, it needs to be embraced by all the organisations in the safety lifecycle and, in particular, end users who need to provide evidence to their regulatory authorities as a result of regulatory inspections/audits or in support of safety cases. Video Smoke Detection- A timely solution to fire in the oil and gas environment
HazardEX, May 2009
By Ian Moore, D-Tec
The results of fire, at sea on production platforms or onshore at oil terminals and storage facilities, has caused the industry to look at new approaches such as Video Smoke Detection (VSD) to protect key elements of their infrastructure and to ensure the safety of workers by providing an early warning of fire.
| | Browse more articles and white papers on the Process Safety portal. | | | Product Announcements | | | Other Product Announcements | Browse more Product Announcements on the Process Safety portal. Search all Products by keyword, category, manufacturer or release date. | | White Papers | Risk Control Hierarchy Clarifies Electrical Safety
By Phil Allen, Grace Engineered Products
The Risk Control Hierarchy (RCH) in the ANSI-Z10 standard provides a roadmap for setting safety objectives to reduce electrical risks. This white paper details how applying the RCH to any electrical safety program will increase both safety and employee productivity. Alarm Trips: The Ups and Downs
By Moore Industries
White paper contains information on the various types of alarm trips, effective applications, and safety factors and other considerations when implementing an alarm trip strategy. PROFIsafe: Networked Safety for Process and Factory Automation
By ARC Advisory Group
Safety has evolved from being a cost burden to a strategy for improving productivity and reducing downtime. PROFIsafe allows seamless communication of safety data independent of network media. Automation users are now taking advantage of these solutions to unify their network while maintaining conformity with safety standards up to SIL3. Prevent 24 VDC overloads from stopping production
By Kai Bronzel, Siemens
Advanced technologies require more intelligent protection. For today’s preferred switched mode power supplies, it means that circuit breakers and fuses are inadequate for protecting individual 24 VDC load circuits.
| Browse more white papers on the Process Safety portal.
| | Resources & Literature | Emerson expands partial discharge testing service
Expanded testing will help companies eliminate unplanned outages due to electrical failures, reduce maintenance costs, increase system reliability, and improve worker safety Adalet announces ATEX control panel assembly certification
Adalet eliminates the requirement to re-submit enclosure assemblies to third party testing laboratories for final equipment certification saving customers considerable amounts of time and money. TUV Rheinland offers GS S1 Certification
The GS S1 Certificate demonstrates full compliance with both the German Equipment Safety Act and the Low Voltage Directive (LVD), a minimum EU requirement. Omron STI publishes guide to Machine and Process Safety Services
Guide details the company’s suite of services including machine and process safety education, assessment and risk identification, engineering and design, as well as integration and implementation.
| Browse more resources and literature on the Process Safety portal.
| | Application Stories | ABB safety system protects StatoilHydro's Troll A platform
The system controls emergency shut down applications on the platform, located 70 km off the coast of Norway. Explosion-proof enclosures simplify maintenance of fire and gas detection systems
HazardEX, May 2009
PDC Systems, a supplier of hazardous area electrical instrumentation, is using explosion-proof enclosures from Cooper Crouse-Hinds to protect fire and gas monitoring and control systems that it supplies to a wide range of hazardous gas applications. Improved Fieldbus Operations with Advanced Diagnostics
Control, May 2009
By Chris Williams, Eastman Chemical Company
The High-Power Trunk concept (HPT), together with FieldBarriers, provides a new approach to creating intrinsically safe fieldbus segments. The entire installation is continuously monitored by the Pepperl+Fuchs’ ADM integrated in the FieldConnex power hub. Averting furnace explosions
South Africa Instrumentation and Control, May 2009
The Tasmanian Electro Metallurgical Company (TEMCO) in Australia has four electric arc furnaces which, due to their sporadic nature, can experience explosions without any warning. These submerged arc furnaces are identified as the most dangerous furnaces in the world. A Siemens LDS6 laser gas analyzer solved the problem. Air shut-off valves and spark arrestors protect LNG terminal
HazardEx, April 2009
Chalwyn air shut off valves and exhaust spark arrestors have been fitted on the maintenance vehicles working at the Milford Haven South Hook LNG terminal. This is to match the high level of hazardous area safety at the facility to that achieved in the Middle East at the Qatar Gas LNG production plant.
| Browse more application stories on the Process Safety portal.
| | Featured Training | Fundamentals of Intrinsic Safety (Ex) seminar
August 19, 2009 Houston, TX
This educational training seminar will provide an in depth overview of the theory behind Intrinsic Safety (Ex) protection and its application within the process industry. Purge and Pressurization Systems seminar
October 21, 2009 Houston, TX
This one-day training session covers purging, how to determine the need, what is used to purge/pressurize an enclosure, and what types of enclosures and devices can be purged. Price: $350. SolaHD offers Online Learning Module on Power Protection
Module provides key points on today's challenging power environment and the damaging effects of transients and noise on electrical equipment. Hazardous Area Instrumentation Training Course - Electronic Download
This is a self-paced training course which covers all aspects of instrumentation and automation systems used in hazardous (classified) locations. Machine and process safeguarding seminars
One-day training seminars by Omron STI help educate plant personnel on the requirements and methods of machine and process safeguarding.
| Browse more training and seminar opportunities on the Process Safety portal.
| | Company & Organizational News | Phoenix Contact obtains ATEX approval
Phoenix Contact received a Quality Assurance Notification (QAN) certificate to design and produce products that meet the ATEX (Directive 94/9/EC and IECEx) standard for explosive atmospheres. FCI ST50 mass flow meter receives ATEX approval
ST50 thermal mass flow meter is now ATEX-approved for potentially explosive environments classified as EExd IIC T4. GE Fanuc opens center for Oil & Gas in UK
It will be focused around process control solutions for the general process safety market, and specifically solutions aimed at the Oil & Gas industry. exida certifies Micropack flame detector
exida certified the design and engineering processes of the Micropack FDS 301Visual Flame Detector. ABB System 800xA safety libraries achieve SIL 2/3 certification
The recently certified applications provide specific key process protection functions for upstream processes for oil, gas & petrochemical.
| Browse more company and organizational news on the Process Safety portal. | | Project News | Emerson to automate Bohai Bay offshore oil field in China
Emerson is engineering and installing PlantWeb for process control and asset management and is integrating these with shutdown and fire and gas systems on each platform. Honeywell to install fire & gas detection system at pipeline in Ceyhan
The system will include Honeywell’s Safety Manager and Searchline Excel open path gas detectors, as well as closed-circuit television (CCTV) flame detectors. Hima-Sella to upgrade major Norwegian gas treatment plant
Process Industry Informer, April 2009
Hima-Sella will be upgrading systems originally installed by HIMA 20 years ago. The work will be in three areas – ESD (emergency shut down systems), HIPPS (high integrity pressure protection systems) and CAP (critical action panel – replacing the 20-year-old ‘Planar F’ system with a HIMA HIQUAD h51q programmable electronic system. Emerson to control floating storage and regasification unit
Emerson will supply DeltaV, AMS Suite software, Fisher control valves, Rosemount transmitters, and safety systems on the Golar Freeze, a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) vessel. IPS to supply safety and controls to Petrobras
IPS will supply Triconex safety and Avantis asset management technology to upgrade and modernize 11 Petrobras refining facilities throughout Brazil.
| Browse more project news on the Process Safety portal. | | Featured Events | 2009 IPS North American Client Conference
September 21-24, 2009 Houston, Texas
This year’s conference focuses on Achieving Sustainable Performance, where customers will exchange information and learn how to improve and sustain performance in today’s economic climate. Emerson User Exchange
September 28-October 2, 2009 Orlando, Florida
Emerson Global Users Exchange is more than an industry-leading technical conference…it is a community of manufacturing leaders committed to extracting the most from their automation investment…and sharing their learning with each other. Energy and Power Distribution Conference
September 29-Ootober 1, 2009 Houston, Texas
The conference will feature best practices from presenters who are specialists in electrical distribution, energy management and arc flash safety. ISA EXPO 2009
October 6-10, 2009 Houston, Texas
ISA EXPO is focused on the technology and techniques of automation and control. Organized around the six core themes central to automation and control, ISA EXPO 2009 provides attendees unlimited opportunity to explore key technologies, discover professional growth, and interact with like minded professionals. Remote 2009 Conference & Expo
October 29-30, 2009 San Antonio, Texas
Remote 2009 Conference and Expo will focus on the leading advancements for the monitoring and management of distributed equipment and facilities, remote assets, automated process & system controls and device networks.
| Browse more industry events on the Process Safety portal. Add an event to our calendar. | I hope you enjoyed this Process Safety update. If you have any comments or suggestions regarding the content in this e-newsletter or on Automation.com, please don't hesitate to contact me. Rick Zabel
Vice President, Publisher
Automation.com View our Privacy Policy For editorial inquiries, please contact Rick Zabel
For advertising inquiries, please contact Karen Olson or Kia Weller, or see our Media Kit. | |
|
_thumb.jpg)
Hiç yorum yok:
Yorum Gönder