Jun. Meeting

June 1, 2005 Meeting:

An End User's Experience with Fieldbus

Presentation: An End User's Experience with Fieldbus (1.74 MB). (Clicking the link will open the file in a new window. Clicking the mouse in the new PowerPoint Window will advance the presentation.)

Audio: Click here to open Media Player and play the streaming audio file (1 hour 7 min 16 sec). Due to technical problems, the first minute is missing.

Topic: A recent fieldbus reinstrumentation project at the Shell Deer Park refinery on the cat cracker unit. Topics covered will be overall system architecture (DCS, SIS, vibration, OPC, etc.) as well as a summary of total I/O (conventional & fieldbus), fieldbus segment rules, examples of graphics (process & maintenance), pictures of project field installations, "hot" cutover procedures and learnings (both good & bad).

Speaker: Bob Sherven of the Shell Oil Deer Park Refinery received a Chemical Engineering B.S. degree in 1980 from the University of California at Davis. He has been working for Shell Oil since 1989 and at their Deer Park (Houston) refinery since 1992. He has worked in the Control Systems department both as an instrument engineer as well as a process control engineer supporting various units throughout the refinery. Since 1999 his has been in the projects group managing or supporting several projects in the instrument field. Beginning in 2001 the Shell Deer Park Refinery embarked on a reinstrumentation program and Bob was the project manager for the first major reinstrumentation project (cat cracker) using an Emerson DeltaV DCS system with fieldbus instrumenation (the first at a Shell refinery). He is a registered Professional Engineer in California (Chemical Engineering).