Tolerable fault condition

If a plant leaves its range of specified operation because one or several process variables have left their nominal range the PCE equipment intervenes at the limit between specified operation and tolerable fault conditions, unless there is a reason for plant shut-down. 

The probabilistic analysis supports the deterministic analysis by providing confidence that the safety systems used to control faulted conditions are tolerant to a single failure of an active component. The PRA also shows that the AP 1000 risks are likely to be less than UK targets, recognising that a formal demonstration is still to be presented. This forms a sound basis for the ALARP argument. 

The system configuration shown in Figure 1 would require that the inputs and outputs are regularly tested to ensure that no latent stuck on conditions exist. Although one stuck on fault can be tolerated, unless it is detected and rectified eventually two faults in the same channel would appear resulting in a potentially dangerous fault condition. 

Snunous trip via instrumentation, RPS fault 36. Manual scram no out of tolerance condition... 

The leak rate which is no longer tolerable in accordance with the acceptance specifications is known as the rejection rate. Its calculation is based on the condition that the test specimen may not fail during its planned utilization period due to faults caused by leaks, and this to a certain degree of certainty. Often it is not the leak rate for the test specimen under normal operating conditions which is determined, but rather the throughput rate of a test gas - primarily helium - under test conditions. The values thus found will have to be converted to correspond to the actual application situation in regard to the pressures inside and outside the test specimen and the type of gas (or liquid) being handled. 

The optimal robust controller designed with one of the new synthesis techniques is generally not of a form that can be readily implemented. The main benefit of the new synthesis procedure is that it allows the designer to establish performance bounds that can be reached under ideal conditions. In practice, a decentralized (multiloop) control structure is preferred for ease of start-up, bumpless automatic to manual transfer, and fault tolerance in the event of actuator or sensor failures. Indeed, a practical design does not start with controller synthesis but with the selection of the variables that are to be manipulated and measured. It is well known that this choice can have more profound effects on the achievable control performance than the design of the controller itself. This was demonstrated in a distillation example [17, 18] in which a switch from reflux to distillate flow as the manipulated variable removes all robustness problems and makes the controller design trivial. 

This subclause allows the hardware fault tolerance of all subsystems except PE logic solvers to be reduced by one on certain conditions. These conditions will apply to devices such as valves or smart transmitters and reduce the likelihood of systematic failures such that the requirements are aligned to the requirements of lEC 61508-2 for non PE devices. 

Problem Two smart transmitters have been chosen for a SIF design. The logic solver is programmed to trip if either transmitter indicates a dangerous condition (1oo2). The manufacturer s data sheet lists the SFF as 78.4%. To what SIL level is this design qualified per lEC 61508 hardware fault tolerance... 

Human error is defined as an act outside the tolerance bounds. These are determined by the technical boundary conditions and may therefore be influenced— within limits— by the designer in the sense that the tolerance region becomes large (fault-tolerant design). This reduces the probability of human error. 

Machines safety circuits sometimes require special components such as relays, contactors, interlocks, and E-stops. Common terms associated with these machine components are control reliable, fault tolerant, aaA fail-safe, which means that they fail to a safe condition after a single fault (not multiple faults). 

Between these five discrete states 16 transitions 2) can be defined, depending on the set of possible states for each component and an initial state for the nominal system stale. The conditions of those state transitions are defined by a logical syntax, addressing the system component and the component state. Additionally, it is possible to address not just single component states but also logical combinations of different component states by setting combined conditions in order to provide a system with fault-tolerant capabilities. 

Isermann, R. (2011). Fault diagnosis applications - model-based condition monitoring actuators, drives, machinery, plants, sensors, and fault-tolerant systems. Springer. 

Failure A failure is a permanent interruption of a system s ability to perform a required function. It can only be accommodated by a reconfiguration of the system. Fault A system fault is a deviation of the system structure or the system parameters from the nominal conditions [2]. Appropriate actions may enable to recover from a component fault without replacing the component. The fault may be accommodated through fault tolerant control. 

Tolerate the Hazard. The design needs to be fault tolerant. That means, in the presence of a hardware/software fault, the software still provides continuous correct execution. Consider hazard conditions to software logic created by equipment wear and tear, or unexpected failures. Consider alternate approaches to minimize risk from hazards that cannot be eliminated. Such approaches include interlocks, redundancy, fail-safe design, system protection, and procedures. 

As in nature, networks are relatively fault tolerant concerning, for example, changes in synaptic connections. All these effects can be measured by the change of membrane potential during an action potential (cf. Sect. 3.2). This potential has a direct influence on the gate of a field-effect transistor, or, in another device, it influences the capacity between a microelectrode and the axon, which can be measured with a.c.-coupled amplifiers with high input impedances. AU measurement conditions have to be chosen so that no electrochemical reaction takes place at the electrode surface in order to avoid the formation of poisoning chemicals. 

The steps executed after fault detection are termed alarm interpretation which classify the actual fault, its characteristics (occurrence time, fault size, consequences, etc.), and the root cause. Fault characterization and quantification is required to determine the immediate process state and to determine whether the fault can be safely accommodated at that process state. Based on this input, fault accommodation may be performed through reconfiguration when standby devices in healthy condition are available or through fault-tolerant control (FTC) where the... 

It may also be able to justify less fault tolerance than required by Table 6, when the dangerous failure modes of the SIF devices and associated process interfaces are well understood. Clause 11.4.4 states that if the selection of a device is based on prior use, then, under specific conditions, the fault tolerance for sensors, final control elements, and non-PE logic solvers can be reduced by 1. The reduction of fault tolerance is acceptable, since prior use establishes the field application data, which includes the random hardware failures for the device itself and the random failures due to the process and field device interfaces. 

Sometimes SIFs are designed such that support systems or utilities are required for the safe state to be achieved. Energize-to-trip outputs and air-to-move valves are common examples of SIF implementation where the dominant failure mode is not to the safe state condition. In these cases, the fault tolerance requirements provided in ANSI/ISA-84.00.01-2004-1, Clause 11.4.4, is increased by one, unless the dangerous faults can be detected online and annunciated to the operator while maintaining safe operation. 

Integrating a system under fault-free conditions, then assessing the fault tolerance or failure management following installation. 

Hardware failure and software failure are two kinds of failures encountered in programmable systems, as already discussed. In cases of hardware failure, fault tolerant designs such as redundancy could be applied. Software failure, as discussed, has to overcome certain procedures, but certain failures (design failure) could include behaviors that can be unsafe. A new technique known as system theoretic process analysis is applied in nuclear installations. This is required to identify the control requirements and then check conditions caused hy inadequate control actions such as ... 

Safety is of paramount importance in the petrochemical industry. Working with flammable and hazardous substances under severe process conditions is always challenging. Naturally, all up-to-date information of the plant must be available at suitable places. There shall be ESDs/PSDs to cope up with emergency situations. In most interlock and safety-related instmmentation, fault tolerant circuits with 2oo3/ loo2 or TMR voting are deployed. SIS SIL is maintained in most cases at SIL3 in these plants. 

Zero-Fault Tolerant Having no redundancy. Pertaining to a condition in which a single fault in a system will cause that system or the function performed by it to fail. 

Cooperative Service Level Evaluator. This fault-tolerant distributed vehicular system must ensure its safe operation. Each vehicle implements a cooperative service level evaluator that on every round decides what would be the lowest common ability to meet the operational conditions for the next round. Therefore, the decision and its dissemination must be done in bounded time. Due to communication failures, the cooperative service level evaluator must be able to cope with participants or communication failures. 

The coverage concept was first introduced in the seminal paper by Bouricius et al. [9], also called as the coverage factor, as a conditional probability accounting for the efficiency of fault-tolerant mechanisms. If the identification and recovery of faults are independent of each other, the CM is called a single-fault model (e.g., [5, 10]) otherwise it is called a multi-fault model (e.g., [11, 12]). A recent survey on the status and trends of various CMs was presented in [3]. The issues of persistence and coverage of non-persistent components have not been addressed in these traditional CMs, in which the coverage was limited to the faulty components with a general assumption on system coherence [4, 5]. 

Other safety standards require that even separate control units are used, since especially the environmental conditions can also influence the electronic functions and with separate control units it can be assumed that the functions in different control units are not dangerously influenced by environmental influences at the same time in the same way. It is mainly if fail-operational or fault-tolerant functions are to be considered, but also extensive heat or EMC could lead by common mode effects to unexpected behavior even if safety mechanisms are cotrectiy implemented. 

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