Certification of boiler safety equipment with ALSPA P320 system, to IEC 61508 standard

摘要

Safety and environmental protection are major priorities governing Alstom work on control systems (Alspa P320) for power plant applications, especially when potentially dangerous processes like high-power flame boilers (typically rated at 100 to 600 MW) are involved. Here, automatic protection chains are implemented to guard against the risk of serious incident such as explosion and equipment destruction. In this kind of situation the IEC 61508 standard provides baseline specifications for certification of safety systems.