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A Series of False Pressure Alarms

An operator reports a series of false pressure alarms reported by pressure indicating controller or recorder every few minutes.

Last updated: September 7, 2020 9:07 pm
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An operator reports a series of false pressure alarms reported by pressure indicating recorder PIR-139 every few minutes.

An instrument technician investigated this problem the previous day and declared it was most likely due to an electrical wiring fault between PT-139 and PIR-139 after measuring some intermittent high-current signals at the input terminals of PIR-139:

A Series of False Pressure Alarms

You are called to re-examine this system because the other instrument technician didn’t actually do anything to fix the problem. Your first test is to close the block (isolation) valve between PT-139 and the process pipe. After doing this, the mysterious pressure alarms cease. Later, you re-open that block valve, and the pressure alarms resume.

Explain what the results of this simple test tell you about the nature and location of the fault. Does it confirm the first technician’s diagnosis, or does it point to something else being wrong? Explain your answer in detail.

One detail not described in the scenario is just how the first technician measured those intermittent high-current signals at PIR-139. Presumably, it could have been done by continuously monitoring the display of a digital multimeter (DMM) long enough to see an alarm event occur. However, if the alarm events were infrequent enough, this could be a laborious task for someone to continuously watch a meter waiting to see the current change. Describe how you could use the Min/Max mode of a DMM instead to “automate” this task and free up the technician’s time.

Share your answers with us through the below comments section.

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  • Ben says:
    September 10, 2020 at 7:54 pm

    When I, the second instrument technician, shut the block valve to the transmitter as my first test and the pressure alarm stopped occurring, it was evidence to me that either the pressure sensor was faulty or that the alarms weren’t actually false.

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