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This best seller is ideal for instrumentation and control system engineers in the process industries who are responsible for specifying, designing, analyzing, installing, and maintaining safety instrumented systems. Safety Instrumented Systems: A Life-Cycle Approach addresses the realization that today’s process plants—and the systems used to control them—are capable of large-scale destruction. The risks involved now are so great that the luxury of learning from trial-and-error experience no longer exists. This book is a practical, how-to text covering the specification, design, analysis, programming, installation, maintenance, and management of change of safety instrumented systems. This is a practical, how-to text designed to guide functional safety engineers and others in process industry safety to the right decisions about safety systems at the right time. It: Provides a high-level overview of the ISA84/IEC 61511 standard. Explains how to align the performance requirements of ISA/IEC 61511 with project execution. Provides guidance for making the right decisions about safety systems at the right time. Provides insights about key project milestones so that functional safety engineers can create more effective designs. Analyzes actual situations and experiences to help people learn from the mistakes of others and to help them better troubleshoot their own applications.

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Paul Gruhn, PE, CFSE, is a global functional safety consultant with aeSolutions in Houston, Texas. Gruhn is an ISA Life Fellow, a 25 year member and co-chair of the ISA84 standards committee (on safety instrumented systems), the developer and instructor of ISA courses on safety systems, the author of two ISA textbooks, and the developer of the first commercial safety system software modeling program more than 20 years ago. Gruhn has a BS in mechanical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in Texas, a member of the control systems engineering PE exam committee, and both a Certified Functional Safety Expert (CFSE) and an ISA84 Safety Instrumented Systems Expert. Simon Lucchini, CFSE, MIEAust, CPEng, received bachelor’s degrees in both electrical engineering and science from Sydney University, Australia, and he is a Charted Professional Engineer in Australia. Lucchini has worked for 23 years in the petrochemical industry in roles ranging from operations and maintenance to corporate engineering and project engineering. He has worked at Fluor for the past 16 years in the Control Systems department. He is a Fluor Fellow in safety systems design and the chief controls specialist based at the Fluor Calgary, Alberta, Canada office. Lucchini has written papers on safety systems for various industries and academic venues, including two chapters in Béla Lipták’s Instrument and Automation Engineers' Handbook: Process Measurement and Analysis, fifth edition, published in 2016. Lucchini is currently the chair of the Safety Systems Committee for the ISA Safety and Security Division for which he produces web articles on matters of importance for the safety systems industry. He is also an active contributor to local control system networks that include several global oil and gas operators.

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