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Gas plant explosion in Mexico video

January 11, 2013November 3, 2014John Merriman

Jan 11, 2013– The below video was sent to some friends in an email at work and also shared widely on Facebook. The site is apparently a gas gathering and/or processing facility in Mexico in a desert area, but manned. See the ferocity of the gas explosion and how rapidly it spread alongwith the fire […]

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Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant leak-complete shutdown averted

June 17, 2010November 3, 2014John Merriman

For an excellent e-learning course on Emergency Shutdown Systems and Safety Instrumented Systems, please click here. June 16, 2010– The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant, operated by Entergy, reportedly had a near emergency shutdown recently when a cooling water valve started leaking heavily. The leak was of the order of 1.6 gallons of radioactive water […]

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Are integrated SIS/DCS systems better than standalone SIS DCS systems?

November 16, 2008November 3, 2014John Merriman

Lately, there have been many launches of new “integrated” control systems, that have both DCS and SIS systems in the same package. For those of you are not familiar with these terms, an SIS is short for “Safety Instrumented System“, which is a special kind of control system that is used for the safety critical […]

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