Abstract
Central North-West Local Section
On Monday 19 February, EMI (Electro-Mechanical Installations Ltd; Companion Company) of Stockport hosted a group of C&I Design Apprentices on a lecture and tour of EMI’s factory. The lectures included the manufacture of orifice plates, venturi, thermo-wells, manifolds and other associated items for process instruments. The tour was organised by Tom S Nobes (Central North-West Local Section) and Christine Davies (for EMI).
Tom said, It was great for these young people to see exactly how some items they may take for granted are actually made, and the difficulties associated with that. There is much experience and artisan skill required in the production of such items and there are issues not immediately obvious to designers. Thanks to EMI for a great day.
EMI (www.emiltd.co.uk) prides itself in offering the best possible service to customers from concept through to delivery and beyond. Engineering solutions are customised to meet the exacting needs of their technical requirements. All products are manufactured to the highest standards here in the United Kingdom. EMI has a 50-year proven track record supplying to the chemical, oil and gas industries. EMI is uniquely positioned to offer a complete bespoke service from product evaluation, process design, testing, right through to component manufacture, and delivery.
Central North-West Local Section staged February’s technical lecture on the subject of ‘Wireless Instruments – making a cautious start’. The lecture was hosted by both Liverpool John Moore’s University in the afternoon and Yokogawa UK (Companion Company) in the evening. It was presented by Tom Nobes, Sellafield Ltd. The lecture covered Sellafield Ltd use of ISA
A large decommissioning cost for the UK nuclear industry is cable and associated infrastructure for Control & Instruments. If future cable installation is reduced or avoided, this would drastically reduce costs.
Sellafield Sites Ltd® were attracted to wireless C&I to help reduce lifetime costs, shorten project timescales, reduce their installed base of equipment, be flexible in project strategies and further improve safety.
Historically, Control & Instruments includes an infrastructure of cables, glands, trays, trunkings, junction boxes, marshalling panels and power supplies; all with lifetime costs for design, purchase, installation and maintenance. Where C&I is in remote locations (e.g. plants in decommissioning, sewage farm, plant bunds and pits, and steam and water services) or cable access is difficult (stacks, chimneys, furnaces, areas with higher background radiation, ATEX Hazardous Areas, etc.), cable infrastructure costs dominate C&I project budgets.
Wireless overcomes these problems.
Central North-West Local Section held another one of its monthly evening technical lectures on Tuesday 18 January. The lecture was held at the offices of Yokogawa UK (Companion Company) in Runcorn. The lecture was delivered by Michaël Grossi of PR Electronics (Companion Company) and the subject was ‘Functional Safety – A guide for safety components selection’. A total of 28 people attended the lecture, most were CE&I engineers from local industry. Michaël covered the two possible routes for selection of equipment used in Safety Instrumented Systems, these being ‘proven in use’ and ‘designed and built compliant to IEC61508’.
Tom S Nobes of Central North-West Local Section and the design apprentices visit EMI ltd (Companion Company) at their Stockport factory.
Tom Nobes (Sellafield Ltd.) lecturing on the use of ISA
Tom S Nobes who organises these technical lectures said, ‘Thanks to PR Electronics for this very interesting lecture. Michaël covered everything from the basics of terminology to a worked example determining the PFD of a whole loop’.
Michaël Grossi of PR Electronics (Companion Company) lecturing on ‘Functional Safety – A guide for safety components selection’ for Central North-West Local Section. A total of 28 people attended the lecture.
PR Electronics make signal conditioning instruments. PR’s portfolio is composed of six product areas offering a wide range of analogue and digital modules covering over a thousand applications in industrial and factory automation. All products comply with or surpass the highest industry standards, ensuring reliability in even the harshest of environments and have a 5-year warranty.
Central North-West Local Section’s next lecture is on 7 February on ‘Sellafield Ltd’s use of ISA