High-integrity Pressure Protection System - Advantages of HIPPS

Advantages of HIPPS

HIPPS provides a solution to protect equipment in cases where:

  • high-pressures and / or flow rates are processed
  • the environment is to be protected
  • the economic viability of a development needs improvement
  • the risk profile of the plant must be reduced

HIPPS is an instrumented safety system that is designed and built in accordance with the IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards.

The international standards IEC 61508 and 61511 refer to safety functions and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) when discussing a device to protect equipment, personnel and environment. Older standards use terms like safety shut-down systems, emergency shut-down systems or last layers of defence.

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