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SPECIFICATION OF THE SAFETY FUNCTION
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Specification of the safety function
4.1 Description of the failure categories
In order to judge the failure behaviour of the variable-area flowmeters DK3*, the following
definitions for the failure of the flowmeter were considered:
DK32, DK34, DK37M8M with inductive limit switch output
DK37M8E with 4…20mA output
In IEC 61508 the “No Effect” failures are defined as safe undetected failures even though they will
not cause the safety function to go to a safe state. Therefore they need to be considered in the
Safe Failure Fraction calculation.
The demand response time of DK32, DK34, DK37 is < 2s.
Fail - Safe Failure that causes the subsystem to go to the defined fail-safe state
without a demand from process.
Fail Dangerous Undetected Failure that is dangerous and that is not being diagnosed by internal
diagnostics.
Fail Dangerous Detected Failure that is dangerous but is detected by internal diagnostics (These
failures may be converted to the selected fail-safe state)
Fail No Effect Failure of a component that is part of the safety function but is neither a
safe failure nor a dangerous failure and has no effect on the safety
function. For the calculation of the SFF it is treated like a safe undetected
failure.
Not part Failures of a component which is not part of the safety function but part of
the circuit diagram and is listed for completeness. When calculating the
SFF this failure mode is not taken into account. It is also not part of the
total failure rate.
Fail-Safe State The fail-safe state is defined as the output beeing de-energized
Fail Dangerous Failure that does not respond to a demand from the process (i.e. being
unable to go to the defined fail-safe state)
Fail-Safe State The fail-safe state is defined as the output exceeding the user defined
threshold
Fail Dangerous Failure that does not respond to a demand from the process (i.e. being
unable to go to the defined fail-safe state) or that deviates the output
current by more than 2.5% of full span.
Fail High Failure that causes the output signal to go to the maximum output current
(>21mA) according NAMUR NE43.
Fail Low Failure that causes the output signal to go to the minimum output current
(< 3.6 mA) according NAMUR NE43.
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