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A possible impact to the safety function could be related to:<br />

- Interference to the analog 4-20 mA signal<br />

- Interference to the field interface input of the safety related system<br />

- Interference to the HART capable field device<br />

HART Position Paper from TÜV Rheinland 77<br />

The possible effects could be negative reactions, process signal corruption or unintended<br />

configuration changes of the connected field devices.<br />

As a matter of principle that the HART master devices are directly connected to the field wiring<br />

of a safety related programmable system, it must be assumed that an impact on the analog<br />

process signal to/from the field devices is possible. Under normal circumstances the<br />

superimposed high frequency current should be interference free to low-frequency analog<br />

4-20 mA current, because it will be filtered by standard analog input circuit filters.<br />

Considering abnormal function resulting from the failures (e.g., random hardware failures) of the<br />

HART master devices, the impact to the safety related programmable system could be safety<br />

critical resulting in negative electrical reactions on the input side or output side of the <strong>Safety</strong><br />

Instrumented System or corruption of the measured analog signal.<br />

Further impact could be related to the connected field devices. The configuration could be<br />

changed unintended resulting in non reliable analog input values to the <strong>Safety</strong> Instrumented<br />

System. These failures could happen from a random hardware or systematic software faults or<br />

an accidentally re-configuring from personnel.<br />

In summary, in order to use a HART protocol, which is not approved <strong>for</strong> safety related<br />

communication within an SIS, the following concerns must be taken into account to ensure that<br />

the use of HART is non-interfering the 4-20 mA signal (safety input or output):<br />

1. HART Master (AMS and MUX) directly connected to the field wiring of safety related<br />

system could impact the process signal.<br />

2. Abnormal function of HART Master or slave due to random hardware faults, systematic<br />

software failures, etc. could impact the process signal<br />

3. Unintended configuration changes (accidental re-configuring from personnel, random<br />

hardware or systematic software faults) to the field device resulting in non-reliable analog<br />

input values to the SIS.<br />

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