Process Safety
Pressure Protection
Manager™ (PSPPM™)
Comprehensive design, rating and data
management for your last line of defense
PSPPM™ is an enterprise-level process safety
application used by oil and gas, refining and
chemical process industries for design, rating
and data management of pressure relief and
disposal systems in accordance with industry
standards and best-practice methodologies.
Company-specific guidelines, recommended
and generally accepted good engineering
practices (RAGAGEP), and regulatory
requirements stress the importance for
process plant operators to comply with
process safety best practices and keep process
safety information evergreen.
PSPPM utilizes a single data repository that
provides process safety engineers and
managers across the world a collaboration
platform to ensure visibility into the adequacy
of relief and disposal systems and manage the
design basis for such critical process safety
barriers throughout the plant lifecycle.
PSPPM is enhanced using Siemens product
development methodology which includes
secure design practices and quality assurance
processes.
Our Expertise
Siemens pioneered the equipment-based
Pressure Relief Analysis (PRA) methodology
and is the world’s leading provider of pressure
relief technology. Siemens expertise is unique
"PSPPM has been a significant PSM
because:
asset as it both satisfies our
• Developers of Best Practice approach to documentation requirements and
provides us with quick executable
Pressure Relief Analysis and corporate
files for relief device
standards implemented by major
modifications."
international oil and gas, refining and
chemical companies. – Technical Program Manager
• Global Process Safety Consulting
Services provider with nearly 5,000
projects completed.
• Our people are API and DIERS contributing
members, subject matter experts in
pressure relief design and analysis, and
product development and software delivery
experts.
• PSPPM offers users a robust process safety
information management system with over
40 calculation methods for relief device
sizing, flare header analysis and
maintaining evergreen data throughout the
plant lifecycle.
www.usa.siemens.com/psppm
Additional services available:
 User training
 Product demonstration
 Customer support portal
 Onsite or remote installation
 Process & Safety Consulting and
Engineering Services
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Siemens Energy, Inc.
Process & Safety Consulting
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• Interoperability: According to an NIST
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The technical data presented in this
document is based on an actual case
or on as-designed parameters, and
therefore should not be relied upon
for any specific application and does
not constitute a performance
guarantee for any projects. Actual
results are dependent on variable
conditions. Accordingly, Siemens does
not make representations, warranties,
or assurances as to the accuracy,
currency or completeness of the
content contained herein. If requested,
we will provide specific technical data
or specifications with respect to any
customer’s particular applications.
Our company is constantly involved in
engineering and development. For that
reason, we reserve the right to modify,
at any time, the technology and product
specifications contained herein.
Our Value, Our Customer Core Capabilities
• PSPPM Cloud: Enables customers to • Equipment- and system-based pressure
quickly scale usage across their enterprise relief analysis determines all overpressure
and provide faster access to software scenarios and the adequacy of installed
enhancements. Cloud delivery may pressure safety valves, rupture disks, and
increase the return on investment for piping vents.
PSPPM and associated process safety
• Calculation methods to determine
consulting services through productivity
required relief rates and stream properties,
gains and optimized total cost of
including two-phase relief scenarios based
ownership.
on API and DIERS methodologies.
• Unprogrammed PSM Inspections: If a
• Design verification for pressure relief and
regulatory officer knocked on your door
disposal systems at various phases in the
today, how prepared would you be?
plant lifecycle.
Without PSPPM, you would need to spend
significant resources to put together the • Disposal system analysis includes rating
documentation. An investment in PSPPM methods for knockout drum separation
will have your process safety information efficiency and hold-up capacity, and flare
and design basis available in a matter of tip pressure drop and radiation.
minutes, saving your organization potential
• PSPPM interfaces with industry-leading
citations, time and unforeseen costs.
relief header simulation software to
• Evergreening: Trevor Kletz was fond of determine disposal system pressure and
repeating: "There’s an old saying that if you temperature profile for back pressure
think safety is expensive, try an accident." calculations.
• Single repository for immediate access to
years executing projects, findings show
PSM-related information and management
only 60% of pressure relief devices meet
of design basis for different plant modes of
design standards. With PSPPM, relief device
operation.
information can be kept up-to-date,
accurate and accessible – helping ensure • Advanced reporting capabilities (standard
safe plant design and operation. or custom) for improved analysis and
design deficiencies tracking and mitigation.
report, lack of informational interoperability • Role- and resource-based security allows
has a high impact on the cost of capital for the management of user access to data.
investment and projects. While designing Permissions can be granted as widely as an
new processes, associated equipment and/ organization, as narrowly as a single
or piping, PSPPM allows you to easily operating unit, and any level in between.
design pressure relief and disposal systems.
• Flexible licensing models tailored to your
Information needs to be entered only once
requirements including software updates,
in PSPPM and it is available to all
technical support, different user types,
stakeholders instantaneously which allows
installation options, and license terms.
for fast, error-free information hand-over
from engineering to operations.