standards: Fossil fuels committee firing up

摘要

When it comes to electric power generation, fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum) play a critical role in the industry. With these resources in such abundance in the U.S., it is important to have specialists at the helm--writing standards and regulations for safe process and generation of these resources. ISA's Power Division (POWID) serves a key role in developing automation standards for use in fossil power plants. POWID members are qualified representatives of the industries' leading technical professionals. ISA's fossil power-plant standards committee, ISA77, provides oversight, review, and approval for ISA standards and technical reports associated with fossil power plants. With 45 members, the committee represents a broad consensus of all the stakeholders of the national/international power utility industry. Each committee is not only responsible for the development of industry standards, recommended practices, and technical reports, but they also support the orderly reaf-firmation of these standards every five years.