Process Control & Safeguarding
Learning objectives
- This training seminar is designed to provide engineers, managers, and technicians with an overview of safety systems as it relates to process control systems
- Cover both, intrinsic and functional safety solutions
- Discuss safety integrity levels (SILs) and techniques to achieve them
Participant profile
Professionals involved in designing, selecting, specifying, installing, testing, operating and maintaining safety systems for process control.
Professionals involved in safeguarding process control systems of any kind.
Any professional needing to get to grips with the ever expanding and complex field of safety in the industrial plant environment:
- Automation Engineers
- Chemical Engineers
Prerequisites
None
The duration
3 days.
DAY 1
- Review of process control, instrumentation, and fieldbus
- Process control systems
- Control algorithms: PID controller
- Intelligent (Smart) sensors and transmitters
- Control valves and actuators
- Fieldbus systems
- Foundation Fieldbus
- Profibus PA
- Case Study # 1
- Video # 1
- Workshop # 1
- Dependability concepts: Reliability, Availability, Safety, Security
- Safety Systems in Process Control and Instrumentation
- Safe design
- Device failures, communication failures, control failures
- Failure modes: fail operational, fail safe
- Error detection and avoidance mechanisms
- Safety instrumented systems (SIS)
- Automatic response
- Risk management
- Safety Standards: IEC 61508/61511, ANSI/ISA-84, ISA18.2
- Safety integrity levels (SIL)
- Layers of protection analysis (LOPA)
- Case Study
- Video
DAY 2
- Fieldbus safety solutions (Intrinsic Safety)
- Implementation Options: Integrated system Vs Separate system
- Implementation option benefits
- FISCO
- Safety with Foundation Fieldbus
- Safety with Profibus PA
- Safety with PROFIsafe
- Case Study # 3
- Video # 3
- Workshop # 3
- Process control safety solutions (Functional Safety)
- Achieving target SILs
- Safe control system design
- Safety-related controls.
- Safety control loops
- SIS Protocol
- SIS Function Blocks
- SIS Diagnostics
- Case Study
- Video
DAY 3
- Testing
- Process Alarms & Operator intervention
- Emergency shutdown
- Safety approvals
- Economic analysis
- Programme summary
- Case Study