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IFRF G22/y/1 Safe Design of Fired Equipment in the Oil and Gas Industry
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Authors: Dave Wilson
Summary
Fired equipment safety was the topic of the IFRF Topic Oriented Technical Meeting 43 and was held at the Halifax Hall Hotel in Sheffield, UK.
This event marks the first IFRF TOTeM on fired equipment safety and its associated instrumentation and control requirements. TOTeM 43 addressed the best practices and challenges of most of the fired equipment operated in the Oil and Gas Industry, i.e. process heaters, cracking furnaces, industrial boilers, steam methane reformer furnaces and incinerators. It also showed some of the key differences between supervised and unsupervised fired equipment and the approaches taken in various international codes and standards. Above all, it aimed at sharing the best practices that combine safety and availability at a reasonable cost.
The technical program included:
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17 presentations from internationally recognized engineers involved in the writing of international standards on instrumentation, controls and safety functions of fired equipment. The presentations addressed a large variety of critical topics and was followed by discussions.
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Four round table discussions providing opportunities to all participants to ask questions, share experiences and define best practices.
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One poster session allowing sponsors to present their services and technologies.
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One wrap-up session summarizing the learnings from this meeting and focusing on the question: “How can IFRF assist in going forward?”.
Jacques Dugué, TOTAL Tom Gilmartin, BP
Organizers of TOTeM 43 technical program
Abstract
Fired equipment safety was the topic of the IFRF Topic Oriented Technical Meeting 43 and was held at the Halifax Hall Hotel in Sheffield, UK.
This event marks the first IFRF TOTeM on fired equipment safety and its associated instrumentation and control requirements. TOTeM 43 addressed the best practices and challenges of most of the fired equipment operated in the Oil and Gas Industry, i.e. process heaters, cracking furnaces, industrial boilers, steam methane reformer furnaces and incinerators. It also showed some of the key differences between supervised and unsupervised fired equipment and the approaches taken in various international codes and standards. Above all, it aimed at sharing the best practices that combine safety and availability at a reasonable cost.
The technical program included:
•17 presentations from internationally recognized engineers involved in the writing of international standards on instrumentation, controls and safety functions of fired equipment. The presentations addressed a large variety of critical topics and was followed by discussions.
•Four round table discussions providing opportunities to all participants to ask questions, share experiences and define best practices.
•One poster session allowing sponsors to present their services and technologies.
•One wrap-up session summarizing the learnings from this meeting and focusing on the question: “How can IFRF assist in going forward?”.
Jacques Dugué, TOTAL Tom Gilmartin, BP
Organizers of TOTeM 43 technical program
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Research: Conference
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Outline
- 01 IFRF G22/y/1 Safe Design of Fired Equipment in the Oil and Gas Industry
- 02 TOTeM 43 Conclusions
- 03 TOTeM 43 – Programme
- 04 TOTeM 43 – Intro
- 05 TOTeM 43 – Delegate list
- 06 Industry learnings from Process Safety Incidents with fired equipment
- 07 International Codes and Fired Heater Operation
- 08 API Standards for Boilers (API 538)
- 09 Optimising Availability and Cost Without Compromising Safety
- 10 Industry Trends in SIS Instrumentation
- 11 Heater Availability vs. Resiliency
- 12 Burner Management at Dow – Managing Standards, Auditing & Change
- 13 Excess air and firing controls methods
- 14 Oxygen Measurement on Fired Heaters
- 15 Best Practices on Heater Draft Control
- 16 Architectures for Fuel Gas Safety Shut-Off Valves and Partial Stroke Testing
- 17 Burner Ignition and Flame Monitoring
- 18 Fired heaters operator training
- 19 Voting Architectures for SIS of SMR furnaces
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