Abstract
Nowadays, different industries such as nuclear, automotive, process, chemical, and oil and gas industry must meet specific requirements in order to keep and reduce safety risks to as low as reasonably practicable level. As a result, the number of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems (E/E/PES) to control, prevent, and mitigate hazardous events has increased. Moreover, new guidelines and procedures have been developed to guarantee the availability and function of safety systems over their service life. Based on Markov processes, this article discusses a reliability model to assess the integrity and verify the design of E/E/PES safety-related systems. The average probability of failure on demand and safety integrity level are used to determine the reliability performance of an E/E/PES in a low-demand mode of operation in accordance with the functional safety principles of the IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 9080072 |
| Pages (from-to) | 3422-3430 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 28 Apr 2020 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 2020 |
Keywords
- Functional safety
- IEC 61508
- Markov processes
- Probability of failure on demand (PFD)
- Reliability assessment
- safety integrity level (SIL
- reliability assessment
- probability of failure on demand (PFD)
- safety integrity level (SIL)