ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Refineries must detect unsafe operating conditions before they occur. A set of automated safety shut-down skids for refineries were engineered, built and shipped by EPIC ...

Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery Company (Sasref) on 22 May signed two contracts, with Petrocon Arabia (PAL) and Yokogawa Middle East (YME), for the implementation of Phase 2 of the refinery’s ...

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it will release ProSafe-RS R3.02.20 on December 26. This enhanced version of the ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system (SIS) offers improved connectivity ...

A final investigative report by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board into the nearly catastrophic 2015 explosion that ripped through the Torrance refinery blames ExxonMobil for not “conforming to industry ...

To improve the safety of the operating environment, a holistic method for defining and evaluating the systems that aid an operator with the safe operation of a process unit is required. This approach ...

ISA recently published Safety Instrumented System Design: A Life-Cycle Approach by Paul Gruhn PE, CFSE, and Simon Lucchini, CFSE, MIEAust CPEng. In this Q&A feature, both authors highlight the focus, ...

This publication provides specific recommendations on research reactor instrumentation and control systems and software important to safety, including instrumentation and control system architecture ...

When Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) were first adopted by the process industries in the mid 1980s, they typically were Triple Modular Redundant (TMR) systems. These systems were significantly more ...