Yokogawa’s SIS Certified for Use in Floating Facilities

  • Posted on 09 October 2006

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its ProSafe-RS Safety Instrumented System has received type approval from certification organizations in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom for use on floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessels; liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers; and the like.

Now that the ProSafe-RS has been type approved, they can deliver safety-instrumented system for FPSO facilities and LNG carriers without having to go through compliance test procedures.

The certification organizations issuing this type approval to the ProSafe-RS are the American Bureau of Shipping, Bureau Veritas (France), and Lloyd's Register (UK). These certification organizations prescribe the conditions and performance requirements for the equipment and systems used on ships and offshore floating facilities. Specifically, the systems and equipment are required to operate normally under the conditions of listing, vibration, electromagnetic interference, and power supply voltage fluctuation that exist in an offshore environment.

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