Background

The design of a system must ensure that it is capable of carrying out the functions for which it has been created. These conditions often require strict acceptance testing phase of the system parameters or setting of a large margin on the criteria associated with the functions, in order to avoid non-fulfilment of these criteria.

Requirement

Unfortunately, applying such margins involves oversizing the system and the constraint of strict acceptance testing, resulting in increased production cost of its production. However, an in-depth understanding of the influence of the various parameters on the capacity of the system to comply with the functional criteria allows these extra costs to be avoided.

Service principle

CAPSIM has developed a reliability study tool based on a numerical model of the system studied, produced using PSIM, and a reliability calculation using Phimecasoft software.

Results

Results :

- evaluate the influence of the acceptance ranges for parameters on the correct realisation of functional criteria

- optimize these ranges so as to ensure correct realisation of the functional criteria while minimizing production costs

Static repartition of values of an acceptance criterion evaluated by the study
Categories: energy system studies