Fire and gas system design has historically been a challenge for upstream oil & gas industries.
The design of systems was based on inconsistent rules of thumb that resulted in widely varying requirements for similar facilities. In an effort to formalise and standardise the process for designing fire and gas systems, industry experts, including those at Kenexis, developed the ISA 84.00.07 Technical Report.
Most sophisticated process industry companies incorporate the concept of achieving quantitative coverage targets into their fire and gas design processes. With the advent of fire and gas mapping for coverage targets using sophisticated computerised tools, such as Effigy, process safety has taken a step forward.
The Effigy Fire and Gas Mapping application is part of the Kenexis Instrumented Safeguard Suite. This suite of tools is designed to allow users to create and verify design basis calculations and specifications for a range of instrumented safeguards including SIS, FGS, alarm systems and more.
“Being able to quantify where your detectors are and how good they are at detecting releases, that’s new technology we offer,” said Edward Marszal, president, CEO of Kenexis.
