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The design of process plant alarm systems

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posted on 2017-10-31, 14:45 authored by K. Plamping
Alarms are used on all process plants to alert the operators to abnormal conditions. The current literature on the use of alarms has been reviewed. It is concluded from this that alarm systems suffer from lack of careful deign. A design procedure is presented which selects the alarms based on the credible failure events to be identified. The effect of the plant operating modes is also taken into account. [Continues.]

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

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  • Chemical Engineering

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© K. Plamping

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

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1986

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A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.

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  • en

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