Session: CS-07-01 The Warren H. Bamford Memorial Symposium on Recent Developments in ASME Codes and Standards-1

Paper Number: 156172

156172 - Systems Engineering in the Asme Plant Systems Design Standard 

Abstract: 

An ASME Plant Systems Design (PSD-1) standard is being developed for design of facilities with potential for significant hazards to the health and safety of the public, the worker, and the environment. The standard includes requirements and guidance, for design organizations to integrate systems engineering design processes, practices, and tools with traditional architect engineering design processes, practices, and tools.

The draft ASME Plant Systems Design standard integrates systems engineering, risk evaluation, and probabilistic design practices into traditional plant engineering processes. This standard provides a framework through which plant owners, designers, and other stakeholders may execute projects in a manner that minimizes errors and omissions in the design process and produces optimal cost and schedule outcomes for the standad's users.

Integration of classic systems engineering processes into plant design provides a uniform framework for communicating design requirements, design information, and acceptance criteria throughout the lifecycle of a plant design project. Traditional plant design processes emphasize the use of separate engineering disciplines, which often create information silos that cause errors and omissions in design. The use of a systems engineering process ensures that the plant, its systems, and its infrastructure are designed holistically and consider all requirements for productivity, safety, and the plant lifecycle.

Presenting Author: Jared Harper Terrapower LLC

Presenting Author Biography: Jared Harper is the Deputy Manager of System Design for the MCFR Program at TerraPower LLC, a nuclear innovation company based out of Bellevue, WA. The MCFR program is focused on the design of a fast spectrum, molten salt nuclear power reactor and is currently in the R&D stage. His primary focus is the design of elevated temperature mechanical systems.

Jared is a professional engineer in Washington State. Prior to his experience at TerraPower, he worked on the construction of the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, and prior to that at an oil & gas engineering consulting firm.

Jared is a graduate of Lousiana Tech University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.

Authors:

Jared Harper Terrapower LLC
Ralph Hill Hill Engineering Solutions
Michael Delamare Bechtel Nuclear, Security and Environmental