Instrumentation and Telecom Engineering
Practical Safety Instrumentation and Emergency Shutdown Systems for Process Industries
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Practical Safety Instrumentation and Emergency Shutdown Systems for Process Industries Course
Introduction:
A new training workshop that introduces managers, engineers, and technicians to the latest standards and practices in the application of safety instrumented systems and Emergency Shutdown systems for the protection of hazardous processes. The best safety systems are not the most expensive but rather it is the most practicable system; one that does not cause production losses whilst seeking to achieve a realistic level of risk reduction. This NEW workshop focuses on the management, planning, and execution of automatic safety systems in accordance with IEC 61511, the newly released standard.
Course Objectives:
A wide-ranging overview of the subject:
- Risk management principles applied to protection systems
- An introduction to IEC 61508 and 61511
- Principles and stages of the safety life cycle
- The basics of an SIS and the meaning of Safety Integrity Levels (SILs)
- The importance of setting SIL targets and how this is done
- How to design the SIS to meet SIL targets
- Why regular PLCs are not suitable for safety duties
- Qualifying instruments for safety duties
- How to reduce spurious trips
- Essentials of maintenance and proof testing
- Planning for compliance with IEC 61511
Selected detail topics:
- Role of HAZOP studies and hazard analysis
- Understanding SILs and their impact on capital and operating costs
- SIL determination methods presented in IEC 61511 with practical exercises
- Principles of safety PLCs and the types available
- Planning and implementing the application software
- Selecting instruments for SIS. The meaning of safety-certified instruments
- Principles of fault tolerance and voting architectures such as 1oo2 and 2oo3
- Using smart positioners to improve testing performance
- Reliability analysis and sources of failure rate data
- The benefits of diagnostic systems in reducing test frequencies
- Installation, testing, and modification of the SIS
- Documentation and software tools
Who Should Attend?
- Automation/machinery design engineers
- Chemical or energy process engineers
- Control systems engineers
- Instrument/electrical engineers and technicians
- Instrument suppliers technical staff
- Maintenance supervisors
- Project engineers and project managers
Course Outlines:
- Overview of safety instrumented systems for managers
- Introduction to IEC 61511 and the safety lifecycle
- Hazop methods and hazard analysis for defining risk reduction requirements
- Principles of risk reduction and safety allocation
- Practical SIL determination methods based on IEC 61511
- Practical SIS configurations for both safety and availability targets
- Practical selection of sensors and actuators for safety duties
- Practical reliability analysis methods and programs to IEC 61511
- Practical selection of safety controllers
- Practical system integration and application software for safety controllers
- Practical documentation and validation of SIS systems
- Practical diagnostics and proof testing of safety instrumentation
