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HP Insight: Questions to HP

Hydrocarbon Processing / September 2001
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany
Environment & Safety

HP editorial receives many requests for information. Often, these inquiries are follow-ups to article subjects from previous issues. Many inquirers seek contact information concerning equipment and se..

HP Automation Safety: Partial valve stroke testing

Hydrocarbon Processing / September 2001
exida LLC: Goble, W.
Environment & Safety

Some of the new technology in safety instrumented systems includes smart valve positioners that run diagnostics. These devices automatically run a partial valve stroke test of the valves and actuators..

HP Automation Safety: Getting your functional safety program started

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2001
exida LLC: Goble, W.
Environment & Safety

Several operating companies know about relatively new functional safety standards like ANSI/ISA 84.01 and IEC61508. Many are convinced that the economic benefits of safety life cycle implementation ar..

HP Insight: Synchronizing people and tools

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2001
Consultant: Hartmann, J.C.M.
Environment & Safety

"Supply chain management" considers optimizing refinery operations, which includes supply and distribution. The diversity of upgrading and treating units, and the variety of processed products has sig..

HP Automation Safety: A safety culture

Hydrocarbon Processing / July 2001
exida LLC: Goble, W.
Environment & Safety

I have come to the conclusion that it is hard to maintain a good safety record in the HPI. I have met many topnotch control engineers with good safety orientation. They seem to be doing..

Predict contaminant concentrations in deaerator-vent emissions

Hydrocarbon Processing / June 2001
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: Baade, W. F.  |  Kunz, R. G.
Environment & Safety / Process Optimization / Project Management / Engineering & Design

Here is a tool to estimate maximum concentrations of contaminants in hydrogen-plant condensate

HP Automation Safety: The trend toward SIL2

Hydrocarbon Processing / June 2001
exida LLC: Goble, W.
Environment & Safety

A new market study I worked on shows that the percentage of SIL3 safety instrumented functions (SIFs) is decreasing. SIFs are getting classified more and more as SIL1 and SIL2. Why is t..

HAZROP: an approach to combining HAZOP and RCM

Hydrocarbon Processing / May 2001
P.E., Rohm and Hass Co: Post, R. L.
Environment & Safety / Maintenance & Reliability

A single merged activity provides resource savings

HP Automation Safety: The safe failure fraction barrier

Hydrocarbon Processing / May 2001
exida LLC: Goble, W.
Environment & Safety

Two charts in IEC61508 are getting a lot of attention as engineers begin to implement design processes to meet the standard. These are the "Safe Failure Fraction (SFF)" tables located i..

HP Automation Safety: A lot of work

Hydrocarbon Processing / April 2001
exida LLC: Goble, W.
Environment & Safety

I was talking to an engineer from a major petrochemical company today about implementing the new safety standards. The discussion covered ISA 84.01 and the new IEC61511. Both are perfor..