Mitigation Control of Critical Faults in Production Systems
Abstract
The inherent complexity of critical production systems, coupled
with policies to preserve people´s safety and health,
environmental management, and the facilities themselves, and
stricter laws regarding the occurrence of accidents, are the
motivation to the design of Safety Control Systems that leads the
mitigation functionality. According to experts, the concept of
Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) is a solution to these types of
issues. They strongly recommend layers of risk reduction based on
hierarchical control systems in order to manage risks, preventing or
mitigating faults, and to lead the process to a safe state.
Additionally some of the safety standards such as IEC 61508, IEC
61511, among others, guide different activities related Safety Life
Cycle design of SIS. The IEC 61508 suggests layers of critical fault
prevention and critical fault mitigation. In the context of
mitigation control system, the standard provides a recommendation of
activities to mitigate critical faults, by proposing control levels
of mitigation. This paper proposes a method to implement the
mitigation layer based on the risk analysis of the plant and the
consequences of faults of its critical components. The control
architecture, based on distributed and hierarchical control systems
in a collaborative way, will make use of the techniques of risk
analysis raised and mitigation actions, based on the knowledge of an
expert, implemented by fuzzy logic.
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