EEMUA INDUSTRY UPDATE: Edition 1

About EEMUA
EEMUA is an
international non-profit
association, whose
member companies
manage process
plants, power stations,
offshore platforms,
storage terminals and
other facilities globally.
Through its members’
sharing of engineering
expertise, EEMUA
pursues leadership in
asset management.
This helps deliver costeffective improvements
in plant safety,
environmental and
operating performance.
As well as enhanced
asset management,
EEMUA members also
benefit from
networking,
collaboration and
influence, better
industry awareness,
and a range
publications, events
and training courses.
This update is circulated to individuals with a possible interest in the Dssociation’s activities
EEMUA INDUSTRY UPDATE: Edition 1
Ensure your process analysers report accurately
Process analysers are designed to provide continuous
automatic measurement of the properties or
composition of process streams. But ensuring they
give accurate readings means paying careful attention
to their calibration and ongoing validation. In aQ
updated edition of its code of practice (EEMUA
publication 175), EEMUA provides a detailed and
pragmatic guide to initial calibration and validation, inservice checking, and calibration adjustment of these
devices. The publication is designed as a practical
guide for those directly involved with supplying, using
and maintaining online/process analysers. This
straightforward guide avoids the use of complex
statistical methods, offering descriptions of a more
practical nature. It also keeps cost-effectiveness in
mind, offering straightforward approaches to ensuring
that initial analyser calibration and correlation remain
valid.
Build your competence on storage tanks – EEMUA
CompeTank™ course dates for 2014 now
confirmed
Oil and petrochemical industry feedstock and products
have been stored for many years above ground in
vertical cylindrical tanks. These can appear simple in
both design and construction, but numerous accidents
with these types of tank highlight their complexities.
EEMUA’s unique CompeTank™ scheme tackles
these complexities by training, assessing and
certifying as competent, those who have responsibility
for the inspection, assessment, maintenance and
oversight of tank storage operations. Courses are held
across Europe: in the UK, France, the Netherlands
How well do your alarm systems perform?
Alarms are signals to process plant operators that a
problem needs action. They tell the operator when key
process measurements are moving towards
undesirable or unsafe values, or when equipment is
not operating as it should. Good performance of the
entire system for generating and handling alarms is
vital: a fact brought into stark relief, when poor alarm
system performance has wrought serious safety,
environmental and economic consequences. The
FKannel Wunnel Iire of 1996 resulted in losses of
200m pounds sterling. Poor alarm system design
meant that while the tunnel’s fire alarm system
reacted, it failed to warn operators that a serious fire
was developing. More recently, in 2005, a series of
explosions at the Buncefield Oil Storage Depot in
Hertfordshire destroyed most of the site.
Investigations found that poor performance of alarm
systems was a key factor.
Against this backdrop of importance, experts from the
member companies of EEMUA KDYHFRPHWogether to
produce a new third edition of EEMUA’s guide to the
design, management and procurement of alarm
and Belgium. The scheme now provides four options
based on EEMUA’s own users’ guide and API
Standard 653.
The full courses include an optional examination and
successful candidates DUH be awarded a Certificate of
Competence. Those opting not to take the
examination will be awarded a Certificate of
Attendance.
© 2014 EEMUA All rights reserved
Company number 477838. Registered address: 63 Mark Lane London EC3R 7NQ
systems (EEMUA Publication 191), which was
successfully launched in September 2013. EEMUA
promotes leadership in industrial asset management
and this comprehensive document builds-in the latest
know-how, drawing heavily on the experience of plant
operators across a wide range of industries.
A real strength of the guidance is its broad
applicability to many industrial sectors from oil, gas
and chemical to water, nuclear and rail. The guidance
was also peer reviewed by an “Lndustrial Ueview
group” ensuring that it properly reflected the views of
hardware and software suppliers, as well as users of
alarm systems. Making good use of its material should
bring concrete benefits in terms of improved
operability, safety and cost-effectiveness.