Presented at American Institute of Chemical Engineers Spring National Meeting, April 2006. Published as Meet SIS ‘User Approval’ Mandates, Chemical Processing, May 2006.
USER APPROVAL OF SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEM DEVICES
May 2006
RANDOM, SYSTEMATIC, AND COMMON CAUSE FAILURE: HOW DO YOU MANAGE THEM?
October 2005
Published in Process Safety Progress, December 2006. Presented as Failure Conundrum at Chemical Engineers Spring National Meeting, April 2006. Presented as Beyond Regulatory Compliance: Making Safety Second Nature at 8th Annual Symposium, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, October 2005.
Angela Summers receives Albert F Sperry Award
September 2005
Angela Summers Honored With Prestigious ISA Albert F. Sperry Award (ISA News Release, PDF) and the Sperry Announcement.
SIS-TECH in print!
September 2005
Lees’ Loss Prevention in the Process Industries : Hazard Identification, Assessment and Control, 3rd edition, edited by Sam Mannan of the Mary Kay O’Conner Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University, is now available. Angela E. Summers edited the new Safety Instrumented System chapter. Purchase at www.amazon.com.
ANSI/ISA 84.00.01-2004 AND EXISTING SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEMS
August 2005
Presented as Are Your SIS ‘Grandfathered’ Under ANSI/ISA 84.00.01-2004 at Emerson Global Users Exchange, Orlando, Florida, October 2005. (Published as Can You Safely ‘Grandfather’ Your SIS in Chemical Processing, August 2005. Published as The Grandfather Clause is Not a Fat Man in a Red Suit in Clobal Control, August 2005.
BHOPAL COULD IT HAPPEN AGAIN?
March 2005
Published in Hydrocarbon Processing, March 2005.
Diamond-SIS Fit for Use in Applications up to SIL 3
December 2004
SIS-TECH receives “Fit for Use in Applications up to SIL 3,” from Factory Mutual for the Diamond-SIS product. Go to the Diamond-SIS page for more information about this fault tolerant non-PE logic solver.
Angela Summers receives Mary Kay O’Connor Merit Award
October 2004
Angela Elaine Summers received the 2004 Merit Award from the Mary Kay O’Conner Process Safety Center (MKOPSC) at Texas A&M University. Dr. Summers was recognized for her contributions in supporting its vision to make process safety second nature.
HIGH INTEGRIY PROTECTION SYSTEMS FOR NEW AND EXISTING VESSELS
June 2004
Presented at International Mechanical Engineering Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, June 2004.
HIGH INTEGRITY PROTECTIVE SYSTEMS FOR REACTIVE PROCESSES
March 2004
Presented at Center for Chemical Safety Symposium, September 2003. Presented as Risk Management for Reactive Processes at Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Symposium, October 2003. Published as Consider HIPS for Reactive Processes, Chemical Processing, March 2004.