Emergency Shutdown (ESD) Systems

This course covers the design philosophy, architecture and operation of Emergency Shutdown (ESD) systems that bring process facilities to a safe state during abnormal conditions, including testing and maintenance requirements.

• Understand the role of ESD systems in process safety.
• Describe ESD levels and shutdown hierarchy.
• Identify ESD components and logic.
• Understand testing, bypass and override management.
• Respond correctly to ESD activations.

• ESD philosophy and objectives.
• Shutdown levels and cause-and-effect charts.
• Sensors, logic solvers and final elements.
• ESD valves and blowdown systems.
• Fire and gas system interfaces.
• Testing, bypasses and overrides.
• Operator response to ESD events.

• Control room operators.
• Instrumentation and control engineers.
• Process engineers.
• Operations supervisors.

Participants will receive an international certificate upon successful completion of the course.