COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date knowledge of SIL/SCE Instruments Selection. It covers the functional safety, safety instrumented functions (SIF) and SIS, safety integrity levels (SIL) and safety critical elements (SCEs); the IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards, regulatory and industry context, hazard and risk assessment (H&RA), layers of protection analysis (LOPA) and safety requirements specification (SRS); the SIF demand mode and architecture and the functional safety assessment (FSA) and interfaces with BPCS and other systems. 

During the course, participants will be able to the general considerations in instrument selection, pressure, level, temperature instruments, flow instruments for SIL applications and position, proximity and speed sensors; the selection criteria for field instruments, instrument certification and documentation, final elements in SIF design and final element reliability and testing; the logic solvers of PLCs and safety controllers, interface between instruments and logic solvers, digital communication in SIS and the integration of instruments with asset management; the SIL verification calculations, proof testing of SIL instruments, functional safety management (FSM) and auditing and functional safety assessments.