Process Monitoring Equipment

Perform the most expensive step last. This rule anticipates Murphy s law in so far as process mistakes can and do arise at the production level, and very expensive steps most often require elaborate process monitoring equipment, substantial experience of the supervisory staff, and usually a limited opportunity to be applied to a different recovery problem. 

Process Monitoring Equipment 2.2.4.3.1 Radiation Measurement Devices... 

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The assessor should also find out whether an effective testing program is in place to help ensure the serviceability of process measurement equipment. The successful toller should have an established calibration program to address the accuracy of critical measurement equipment. Safety critical process parameters should be monitored and critical process equipment should automatically interlock when monitoring instrumentation detects safety critical deviations. Interlocks should either facilitate a remedy to the critical deviation or bring the process to the zero energy state. These instruments and interlocking devices should be routinely tested to ensure operational reliability. 

If time and circumstances permit, data should be recorded when the compressor is run on process gas to establish a new base reference point. During operation, all monitoring equipment should be observed to establish a signature of vibration and temperature, and to be sure these data are all within permissible limits. 

The use of appropriate instruments to monitor equipment operation and relevant process variables will detect, and provide warning of, undesirable excursions. Otherwise tliese can result in equipment failure or escape of chemicals, e.g. due to atmospheric venting, leakage or spillage. Instruments may facilitate automatic control, emergency action such as coolant or pressure relief or emergency shutdown, or the operation of water deluge systems. 

Are process parameters monitored and processes and equipment approved ... 

If we improve process monitoring and data logging, we ll be better equipped to track and predict variances in process operating conditions. 

A comprehensive program that includes predictive maintenance techniques to monitor and analyze critical machines, equipment, and systems in a typical plant. Techniques include vibration analysis, ultrasonics, thermography, tribology, process monitoring, visual inspection, and other non-destructive analysis methods. 

Building 5—A motor control center (MCC) constructed of unreinforced masonry. An electrician spends 1 hour a day monitoring equipment in the MCC. The MCC provides power for process equipment critical to the continued operation of the facility. Critical power for safety shutdown equipment for both Process Units 1 and 2 is located in Building 5. 

While combusting hazardous waste, the combustion process and equipment must be monitored and inspected to avoid potential accidents or incomplete combustion. The monitoring and... 

Fire protection system impairment occurs when a fire alarm or supervisory system is shut-off, damaged, fails, or is otherwise taken out-of-service completely or in part. These out-of-service conditions are called impairments. While process monitoring, control, safety, and security-entry systems also provide protective functions, this element of the fire prevention program is only concerned with impairments to fire protection systems and equipment. An essential element of the fire prevention program is a procedure for fire protection impairment handling. 

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