Operator / OEM Collaboration on Trip & Alarm Rationalization
Abstract
Turbomachinery has increased in complexity and monitoring capabilities
over the last several decades. This has resulted in an increased number of
trips to protect various machinery systems. The prevailing OEM philosophy
has been to protect the machine assuming that an immediate trip is safer
and results in the lowest financial consequences. ExxonMobil and Siemens
collaborated to redesign machinery protection and control systems with
an “Operator’s mindset” – considering the integrated, full plant risk. The
goal was to maximize safety and minimize integrated risk resulting in an
increase in mean time between forced outage (MTBFO).
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Citation
Singh Khaira, Niran; Matheidas, Michael; Meruani, Azeem; Mortada, Mohamad-Ali; Wilson,David (2018). Operator / OEM Collaboration on Trip & Alarm Rationalization. Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /172531.