Industrial Fire and Gas Controller

Honeywell’s HS-81 Fire and Gas (F&G) Controller manages detection, notification and extinguishing functions. It can integrate with process safety systems and peripherals through multiple protocols. This all-in-one solution is meant for both process areas and personnel stations. It can perform flame, smoke and gas detection, and manage extinguishing/agent release. This new F&G controller carries essential SIL2 and SIL3 ratings in addition to meeting NFPA-72 and EN-54 requirements. It features a unique ‘hot swap’ capability for the replacement and auto-configuration of CPUs and power supplies without the need to perform a critical system shutdown.

• Detect

  Accurately identify a site fire or gas incident that can impact the process, damage property or hurt people.

• Notify

  Notify personnel about the issue, location, and required actions

• Control

  Automatically mitigate and communicate the hazard

HS-81 CONTROLLER

Comprehensive F&G Safety for Operational Continuity

Honeywell is the world’s leading provider of advanced automation solutions for the process industries. One such solution is the HS-81, an integrated industrial-grade fire and gas system that includes flame, gas, and smoke detection; logic control and networking equipment; suppression and extinguishing capability; public address, sounders, beacons, and other safety components. These elements, which can be brought together to monitor the state of plant safety, offer rapid and coherent emergency response capability.

The system’s highly reliable architecture and advanced software enable faster and better decisions, ensuring maximum plant uptime. With excellent resistance to electromagnetic disturbances and offering continuous operability even in harsh environmental conditions, the HS-81 can meet even the heaviest functional reliability and availability requirements.

HS-81 System Highlights

• Modular Control Panel

  • Safety PLC for Flame and Gas
  • Addressable Smoke Detection Panel
  • Suppression and Extinguishing Panel
  • Human Machine Interface (HMI) Panel

• Fire Extinguishing

  • Automatic Fire Extinguishing System
  • Dedicated Command for Each Solenoid
  • Monitoring and Diagnostics

• Smoke Detection

  • Addressable Analogue Detection
  • Multiple Protocols on One Panel
  • Fault Monitoring
  • Pre-Alarm, Alarm and Alarm Verification
  • SIL2 Detection

• Flame And Gas Monitoring

  • 4-20mA Protocol with HART
  • Front Panel Bar Graph/Numerical Displays
  • Programmable Thresholds
  • SIL2 Sensors Accommodated
  • Remote Reporting

• Building Management System Controls

  • Integrated Process and Building Management

• Software Supervision

  • Graphic Maps
  • System Management
  • Remote Control

• Process Control Integration

  • Ethernet TCP/IP
  • Modbus
  • Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control (OPC)
  • Server and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Connect

HS-81 Features

Honeywell’s HS-81 F&G Controller complies with fault tolerance requirements set by IEC61508. It is also capable of attaining a Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL3 level) , the highest safety integrity level for most industrial operations.. In addition, the H-S81 offers these best-in-class features:

• Hot backup redundant Central Processing Units (CPUs) eliminate downtime
• Hot-swappable redundant CPUs and power supplies
• Hot-swappable cards with automatic reconfiguration
• Redundant and looped panel communication bus
• Automatic testing of card inputs and outputs
• Self-diagnostics and fault signalling of cards and CPU
• Automatic safe disabling of malfunctioning cards
• Supports redundant cards for fire and gas applications
• Multiple protocol addressable detection systems

System Architecture