Richard Phelps

过程ss Standards: Pursuing Best Practices

Most professionals know that ISA-84 is a safety-instrumented benchmark-standard. Interestingly, while the committee was chartered in 1984, it took until 1996 for first version to appear, largely due to the considerable, well-intentioned efforts aimed at specificity. Such extended thoroughness underscored the difficulties in reconciling the divergent aims participants, including both end users a...

Measure More…Without Wires

Salt air slowly corrodes the internal cooling passages of a U.S. nuclear plant's 2,500-hp water-circulation pumps. Corrosion leads to clogging and inefficient heat transfer, and, if undetected, will ultimately result in equipment failure. As the temperatures of water-circulation pump stator-coils increase, efficiencies and effective operation decrease.

Wireless cloud

Certainly industrial instrumentation pros are well versed in wired, but not necessarily wireless, technology. Moreover, with endless corporate downsizing, plants are lucky to have specialists with the knowledge and time to just keep "old" technology running much less simultaneously leading the wireless vanguard.