Environment & Safety
HP Automation Safety: New safety standard impacts the HPI
The final parts have passed! IEC 61508 is an international standard, titled: "Functional safety of electrical / electronic / programmable electronic safety-related systems." This new st..
A look at the new ISO 9000:2000
Here are answers to questions such as: What’s the difference between the old and revised standard? Will it be more difficult to implement? Will it change the way a business is run?
Use safety transmitters to reduce costs and improve reliability
Here’s how transmitters designed for critical use can save thousands of dollars and still provide a high level of plant safety and fewer false trips
Loose change
Cris Whetton, Contributing Editor Comments? Write: editorial@HydrocarbonProcessing.com ..
Understand dry gas seals
Use these guidelines for a successful installation
HP Insight: Petrochemical cycles – either you 'love it or hate it'
Commodity petrochemicals are a "love/ hate" business. When margins and profits are high, HPI operating companies are blissful and eagerly embark on spending sprees. They plan and build new capacity to..
HPIn SHE: The mysterious underworld
In Britain's north Yorkshire, there is a curious well in which the water regularly – and mysteriously – rises and falls. Not surprisingly, it is known as the Ebbing and Flowing Well. While n..
Improve liquid/gas coalescer performance
Using surface treatment for coalescer media, separator drainage capabilities can be significantly increased
HP Insight: A new era for the HPI
Will the new millennium push the HPI into a new era? For many years, we have discussed how the HPI would become a global industry. Interestingly enough, it has evolved into a globalized industry. So, ..
HPIn SHE: DIS-UNITED STATES
At the beginning of December, I flew over to England. I was running a week's course in reliability and maintainability as part of a MSc degree in process safety. On the way over, I had an interesting ..
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