An excellent process training program almost always
turns up opportunities for improvements
because of the close examination of:
- each piece of processing equipment
- each control valve
- each measurement/instrumentation
- each DCS graphic
- each control strategy
- shutdown logic
- emergency procedures
Very often limitations of these items come to the fore so that problems can be addressed and eliminated.
This may result in more optimal processing performance, process debottlenecking, improved graphics, safer operation, more accurate procedures.
Typical examples are:
- A valve is undersized resulting in operating with the bypass valve open
- Critical instrumentation is out of service
- A vessel is undersized
- Flawed control strategy
- Poor tuning of a control loop
- Emergency Procedures are out of date or inaccurate
©Cheryl Morrow March 2011