Probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of a safety critical system: a case study of a nuclear power plant

  • Authors

    • Vinay Kumar
    • Dewanshu Pratihar
    • Anil Kumar Tripathi
    2018-04-03
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.12.11281
  • Common Cause Failure (CCF), Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA), Safety Critical System.

  • Probabilistic Safety Assessment approach has been successfully applied in engineering, economics, computer science and statistics to re-solve a wide range of safety-related problems. However, using Probabilistic Safety Assessment for quantifying safety of a safety critical system is a challenging task in Safety Engineering community. This method plays an essential role in analyzing safety of safety critical sys-tems and its various components. Therefore, in this paper, we present Probabilistic Safety Assessment framework which can be used to quantify the critical failures of a systems. The approach is well demonstrated on a Digital Feed Water Control System uses in a Nuclear Power Plant as safety critical system.

     

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    Kumar, V., Pratihar, D., & Kumar Tripathi, A. (2018). Probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of a safety critical system: a case study of a nuclear power plant. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(2.12), 210-213. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.12.11281