Nuclear power plants - Main control room - Alarm functions and presentation

Published date

02-20-2015

Publisher

European Committee for Standards - Electrical

FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
1 Scope and object
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Background explanations
5 Basic functional requirements
6 Design definition of alarms
7 Alarm signal processing
8 Alarm display processing
9 Alarm control and management
10 Alarm presentation and display-control integration
11 Reliability, testing, and maintainability
12 Alarm recording
13 Alarm response procedures (ARP)
Annex A (informative) - Problems of alarm system
Annex B (informative) - Information sources for signal used to
        generate alarms
Annex C (informative) - Examples of alarm processing logic and
        dynamic prioritization
Annex D (informative) - Conceptual example of alarm grouping
        and categorization
Annex E (informative) - Material for the need of distinction
        between alarm and status information
Annex F (informative) - Example of arrangement of alarm tiles
Annex G (informative) - Examples of points to Consider in the
        Categorisation of alarms
Annex ZA (normative) - Normative references to international
         publications with their corresponding European
         publications

Provides the functional requirements for the alarm systems in the main control room of nuclear power plants. Establishes the human factors requirements and the design guidelines for alarm presentation for the main control room of nuclear power plants.

Committee	CLC/TC 45AX
DocumentType	Standard
PublisherName	European Committee for Standards - Electrical
Status	Current

Standards	Relationship
BS EN 62241:2015	Identical
I.S. EN 62241:2015	Identical
CEI EN 62241 : 2015	Identical
NEN EN IEC 62241 : 2015	Identical
NF EN 62241 : 2015	Identical
NBN EN 62241 : 2015	Identical
DIN EN 62241 : 2015	Identical
IEC 62241:2004	Identical
SN EN 62241:2015	Identical
PN EN 62241 : 2015	Identical
UNE-EN 62241:2015	Identical

IEC 61226:2009	Nuclear power plants - Instrumentation and control important to safety - Classification of instrumentation and control functions
IEC 61839:2000	Nuclear power plants - Design of control rooms - Functional analysis and assignment
IEC 61772:2009	Nuclear power plants - Control rooms - Application of visual display units (VDUs)
EN 61226:2010	Nuclear power plants - Instrumentation and control important to safety - Classification of instrumentation and control functions
EN 61772:2013	Nuclear power plants - Control rooms - Application of visual display units (VDUs)
IEC 61771:1995	Nuclear power plants - Main control-room - Verification and validation of design
IEC 60964:2009	Nuclear power plants - Control rooms - Design
EN 61839:2014	Nuclear power plants - Design of control rooms - Functional analysis and assignment