Emergency shutdown systems (ESD)

Prevent hazardous situations from causing unsafe incidents

A vital layer of protection, an emergency shutdown system is key for providing safe operations. If hazardous conditions occur, immediate action must be taken. Shutting down the facility to a safe state protects personnel, the environment, and the asset.

Solution

Provide SIL 3 ESD safety protection for safer operations — ensuring fail-safe performance of controllers for energize-to-trip and de-energize-to-trip applications
Maximize production output and asset uptime — providing high-availability architecture, fault-tolerant operation, and online module replacement

Deliver superior total value of ownership — avoiding spurious trips and detecting faults before they occur
Reduce investment and lifecycle costs — using the same platform for multiple applications
Extend asset operational life — making online modifications and changes without halting operations

Benefits

Designed and engineered for optimum flexibility — choice of form factors, termination options, centralized and distributed architecture
Inherent diagnostics, redundancy management, and error checking — no user programming required
Continuous operation — high-availability, fail-safe, and fault-tolerant architecture, hot spare slot, online modifications, built-in changes, and module replacements

Universal connectivity with all major process automation systems — integrated, interfaced, or separate options available
Support for all applications — emergency shutdown (ESD), fire and gas (F&G), burner management systems (BMS), high integrity pressure protection solutions (HIPPS), turbomachinery control (TMC)