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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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.