Chemical Engineering October 2014 - 60

Feature Report
Authors
Andrew Soignier is serving
as vice president of Oil, Gas &
Petrochemical Solutions for
Ventyx, an ABB company (800
Town & Country Blvd. Suite
500, Houston, TX 77024;
Phone: 225-751-3348; Email:
andrew.soignier@ventyx.abb.
com). In this role, he directly
oversees Ventyx Level 3 solutions
in the areas of operations,
safety and asset health.
Soignier joined Ventyx in 2007 and has held several
positions in executive account management,
and as the sales director of Oil, Gas & Petrochemical
Solutions. Prior to joining Ventyx, he spent
11 years in the process automation industry, with
a focus on electrical, process safety, critical controls
and rotating equipment. He holds a B.S. in
electrical engineering and an executive MBA
from Louisiana State University.
and benefit from a breakthrough
in process safety performance. A
process-safety paradigm shift is
achieved through integration of
realtime information, best operating
practices and closed-loop control.
Mobile procedure assistants
can help avoid human error. However,
in today's complex processes,
human response time may not be
Angela Summers is president
of SIS-TECH (12621
Featherwood Drive, Suite
120, Houston, TX 77034;
Phone: 281-922-8324; Website:
www.sis-tech.com). She
has more than 25 years of experience
in safety controls,
alarms and interlocks, process
engineering and environmental
engineering. She is an
active participant in standards
committees and has written over 60 papers,
technical reports and book chapters. She is
currently editing the Center for Chemical Process
Safety (CCPS) book " Guidelines for Safe
Automation of Chemical Processes. " Summers
received a B.S.Ch.E. from Mississippi State University
and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from
the University of Alabama.
quick enough. This is where preprogrammed
safety systems provide
the final layer of protection to
return a process to a safe state.
Unfortunately, safety systems
are conservatively designed to fail
safe. In some cases, this mode of action
may be premature, resulting in
false process trips, causing undesirable
loss of productivity. Advances
Mike K. Williams is a consultant
with Modern Automation
Consulting Services, LLC
(6204 Woodview Pass, Midland,
MI 48642; Email:
mike.k.williams1952@gmail.
com). With over 39 years of experience
in the CPI, Williams
provides work-process guidance
in the automation and
operation of batch and continuous
facilities. Prior to starting
external consulting, Williams worked for The
Dow Chemical Company in the Specialty and Advanced
Materials divisions, where he consulted
on and provided analysis and investment planning
for a number of new and rehabilitation capital
projects. He has a B.S.Ch.E. from the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor and is certified in
Lean-Six Sigma methodologies.
in state-based control can respond
in advance of the last line of defense
and address the abnormal event,
when it is less than critical, before
shutting down the entire process.
This example of " man-machinemethod "
integration provides the optimum
response to ensure high levels
of both safety and productivity. ■
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