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Implementing Safety Instrumented BMS: Challenges and Opportunities

Implementing a Safety Instrumented Burner Management (SI‐BMS) can be challenging, costly, and time consuming. Simply identifying design shor

How Taking Credit for Planned and Unplanned Shutdowns Can Help You Achieve Your SIL Targets

Achieving Safety Integrity Level (SIL) targets can be difficult when proof test intervals approach turnaround intervals of five years or mor

Conducting a Human Reliability Assessment to support PHA and LOPA

This paper will present an overview of the HRA methodology, worksheets used to develop and document the HRA, examples of HR Event Trees, a m

Case Study of a Safety Instrumented Burner Management System (SI-BMS)

This paper will cover: the development of a SIS front end loading package the project cost savings realized attributed to following the saf

Burner Management System Upgrade Challenges and Opportunities in Brownfield Installations

by Mike Scott, P.E., CFSE, aeSolutions Founder A two‐prong templatized approach to multiple brownfield burner management system...

Breathing Life into the Alarm Management Lifecycle

‘Evergreen’ and ‘lifecycle’ have become two common buzz words in our industry. They are thrown around in a variety of topics, processes, and

Accounting for Emergent Failure Paths in LOPA

Application of one such system technique known as “NET-HARMS” (Networked Hazard Analysis and Risk Management System). The NET-HARMS techniqu

Can we achieve Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3) without analyzing Human Factors?

Incorporate quantitative Human Factors into a SIL analysis. Representative operating units at various stages of maturity in human factors an

Stopping the Swirl: Facilitation Tools that Improve PHA Results and Efficiency

Effective Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) facilitators combine soft skills with technical knowledge to guide PHA teams through a thorough iden

Understanding Overpressure Scenarios and RAGAGEP

Introduction to Using RAGAGEP for Overpressure Risk Mitigation