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Systems integration specialist Hima-Sella has been awarded and has commenced work on three contracts to provide solutions to protect against overpressure scenarios at the Total E&P UK Ltd gas terminal at St. Fergus, Scotland. ...
It is increasingly being recognised that where the integration of Process Control Systems (PCS) and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) involves the sharing of hardware and networking resources the responsiveness, effectiveness and even the very role of the safety systems/functions can be compromised. Andy Tonge, Hima-Sella’s Sales Manager, advises against placing all your eggs in one basket....
Andy Tonge, Hima-Sella’s Sales Manager, explains how pipeline protection comes down to the application of fundamental safety logic....
Hima-Sella has received an order for, and commenced construction of, a high integrity alarm system for a major UK refinery. Due for installation in Q1 2011, the system will replace and improve upon the functions of another vendor’s system, for which support is no longer available....
It is a fact of life that accidents in safety-critical industries do happen; despite the designing-in of seemingly suitable safety systems and procedures....
The Kårstø plant, located 30km north of Stavanger in Norway, already boasts an impressive safety record but site operator Gassco and its technical services provider Statoil were both keen to bring all systems in line with newer plants....
Hima-Sella is to upgrade the Emergency Shutdown System (ESD) at GrowHow UK’s Teesside Billingham plant to a TÜV certified HIQuad H51qHS system....
Hima-Sella has been awarded a further contract to manufacture power & distribution panels, within weeks of securing the initial order for instrument racks for a production line expansion project. This £40k order follows the £300k contract, awarded in April by Jacobs Engineering UK, for the manufacture of twelve, open-framed instrument racks for a third Amistar production line (AZ3) for Syngenta....
Hima-Sella has been awarded a contract by DSM Nutritional Products (UK) Ltd to design and supply safety instrumented systems (SIS) and human machine interface (HMI) status indication matrices for its Vitamin C and Calpan production site in Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland....
Hima-Sella has just completed the first UK installation of HIMax at a major UK refinery.
In 2008, engineers from the UK refinery travelled to Germany for a global engineering conference then visited the HIMA factory where HIMax was initially designed and developed....