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Home » Authors » Luis Manuel Garcia G. CFSE

Luis Manuel Garcia G. CFSE

Luis Manuel Garcia G., CFSE, is a certified functional safety expert and a process safety senior consultant with Siemens Digital Industries, Houston. For more information from the author or Siemens Digital Industries, call 281-687-8369 or visit www.siemens.com.

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1 PH 0122 Siemens IPL Alarm Feature
Combustion Safety

How to Take Credit for an IPL Alarm in Your DCS, Part 2

Often, the functionally safer a system is built, the less reliable it becomes. Part one of this two-part series discussed how to handle independent protection layer alarms. In this article, I’ll demonstrate the concept using the example of a refinery furnace.
Luis Manuel Garcia G. CFSE
January 12, 2022
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Often, the functionally safer a system is built, the less reliable it becomes. In a continuing discussion of how to handle independent protection layer alarms, this article demonstrates the concepts using the example of a refinery furnace.


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1 PH 1221 Siemens IPL Alarm DCS
Combustion Safety

How to Take Credit for an IPL Alarm in Your DCS

Often, the functionally safer a system is built, the less reliable it becomes. In this article, the first of a two-part series, learn how to handle independent protection layer alarms.
Luis Manuel Garcia G. CFSE
December 27, 2021
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There is no way around it: The functionally safer a system is built, the less reliable it becomes. Typically, process control systems are built with one or more independent protection layers (IPL).


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Combustion Control

Identifying Safety Instrumented Functions in Burner Management Systems

ISA provides helpful guidance as Technical Report TR 84.00.05 is under review.
Luis Manuel Garcia G. CFSE
May 8, 2020
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Industrial fired heaters are known to be the oldest and most common industrial process devices. Many manufacturing processes (if not all of them) involve heat exchange in some way or another, and the use of fired heaters is a way to provide such energy exchange. 


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