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The design of burner monitoring systems has become of significant importance from the point of view of safety in industrial processes. Not only is it necessary to protect investment, or maintain production, avoiding unscheduled stoppages, but it is also necessary to protect human life, the community and the environment. The result of explosions in boilers and furnaces means serious losses in human lives and equipment, in addition to, in many cases, leading to a cessation of industrial activity for a variable period of time.

The function of a burner monitoring system (BMS) is to ensure the safe operation of combustion associated with boilers (steam, power generation, recovery), furnaces (oil refinery, heat treatment, cement) and process heaters. The BMS provides a safe starting and fueling procedure when conditions are detected that affect the safety of the equipment. Through the heavy use of microprocessor technology, programmable systems have become the preferred solution for burner monitoring system design. Thus, programmable systems offer superior features for on-screen graphics presentation and online diagnostics and also facilitate system modifications and expansion. Since the failure mode of a microprocessor is not easily predictable, different standards and regulations have established best practices and guidelines for the application of this technology in BMS design.

This course aims to provide information for a better understanding of the operation of BMS systems, the standards that regulate their design, the analysis of hazards and associated risks and why they are so critical for the industry.

Course objectives, you will be able to:

• Understand the dangers and risks of combustion.
• Understanding the Primary Causes of Boiler and Furnace Explosions
• Define the resources and documentation necessary to establish design criteria.
• Evaluate different considerations that make the design of BMS.
• Develop and understand NFPA, IEC, and ANSI/ISA requirements for BMS.
• Describe burner monitoring and control systems (BMS) such as SIS.
• Determine and select FIS security features.
• Determine SIL integrity levels for the design of BMS functions.
• Verify that the BMS design is optimized to reduce risk.

Course content:

• Section 1 – BMS
  • What is a BMS?
  • What is the purpose of a BMS.
  • Where are BMS used?
  • Burner ignition cycle.
  • Causes of explosions in boilers.
  • Functional requirements of boilers.
  • Equipping a BMS
• Section 2 – SIS
  • What is an SIS?
  • Me and BMS and SIS?
  •  Standards for BMS
  • NFPA 85 and NFPA 86. Requirements for boilers and furnaces. IEC 61508, IEC 61511, ANSI/ISA 84.00.01
  • Life cycle of an SIS
  • Use of PLCs or DCSs as a logical processor of a BMS.
  • A BMS for one or more boilers?
  • NFPA Requirements for BMS vs. IEC Requirements for SIS
  • Safety instrumented functions (SIF) in a BMS.
  • Importance of an instrumented SIS safety system
• Section 3 – BMS-SIS Design
  • Considerations for the design of a BMS
  • Architecture of an SIS.
  • Architecture of a BMS.
  • Hardware requirements for a BMS.
  • Life cycle applied to a BMS
  • Cause – Effect Matrix of a boiler.

Qualifications, skills, competences acquired in the course:

• Importance of analyzing and reviewing the applicable standards in Functional Safety.
• Importance of analyzing and reviewing the rules applicable to Burner Supervision
• Understand the need to analyze Process Risks.
• Need to analyze the possible layers of protection and the feasibility of existing ones.
• BMS Design Basics Using an SIS
• Select the SIS components according to the required SIL.
• Understanding the requirements for hardware evaluations in the context of IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards.
• Understand the safety parameters provided by the Manufacturers.
• Application examples

Course duration:

Eight (8) hours taught in two (2) classes of 4 hours each, virtual format.

Course language:

Spanish and English.

Who is this course for:

Plant Managers, Engineering Manager and Department Supervisory Personnel, Operations Manager and Department Supervisory Personnel, Maintenance Manager and Department Supervisory Personnel, Control Engineers, Safety Engineers, Safety System Designers, and any other personnel involved in the management, operation, engineering, and maintenance of boilers, furnaces, and other systems using BMS.

The course is aimed at those who have responsibilities within the scope of the IEC 61511 standard. In particular:

• Process plant managers who have responsibility for the management of functional safety involving Safety Instrumented Systems.
• Control and instrumentation engineers, chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers who have responsibility for or have participated in exercises for the determination of SIL, specification, design, operation and maintenance of plant protection that use safety instrumented systems.
• System integrators of safety instrumented systems designed to meet the requirements of IEC 61511.

Requirements to attend this course:

Knowledge of the operation of Boilers and/or Furnaces. Basic knowledge of Instrumentation and Control and Basic Process Control Systems. Have completed a training course in Functional Safety – Safety Instrumented Systems or equivalent.

Prior knowledge

Prior knowledge of burner supervision systems and Safety Instrumented Systems is required to attend the course.

Certificates

• Certificate of attendance accrediting the key topics covered in the course.
• Attendees who wish to do so can take an exam for the certification of the knowledge acquired.

Study Material:

Complete course notebook containing industry examples and solutions for all SIL design and verification workshops.

Recognitions:

All participants who meet the course requirements and successfully pass the final exam with a good grade will be awarded a Digital Badge. The digital Badge certifies that the participant has attended the PS10 training course and has completed the final evaluation test with a good score, verifying that said participant has assimilated the new knowledge.