Specific Commitments

DOE-STD-3024-98

This section should identify those requirements that

or support requirements for equipment (for example,

may exist for the design to distinguish indications

to prevent damage to equipment or injury to

and alarms that promote the prompt and effective

personnel).

performance of necessary operator safety actions

from other indications and alarms. Similarly, this

3.3.2 Mechanical and Materials

section should identify requirements that may have

arisen related to factors such as shapes, colors, or

This subsection shall identify those mechanical or

locations of particular indicators, controls, or

materials engineering requirements (and their bases)

displays because such features had been identified

related to the system being described. Such

as important to success by a human interface task

requirements may relate to pumps (for example,

analysis or similar types of evaluations.

type, net positive suction head, flow capacity,

discharge pressure), valves (for example, type, size,

stroke time, location), HVAC system components

3.2.7 Specific Commitments

and flow rates or differential pressures, equipment

This subsection shall identify commitments that

heat generation limits or cooling system parameters,

have been made to the DOE or another regulatory

and parameters relating to compressors, filters, fans,

agency such as the EPA, and in some cases, court

boilers, and other equipment.

orders. For example, in the investigation of an

operational event at a facility, it might have been

3.3.3 Chemical and Process

determined that a major contributor to the incident

was the absence of positive position indication for

This subsection shall identify those chemical or

some critical dampers or valves. As part of the

process requirements (and their bases) related to the

corrective actions to prevent recurrences of that or

system being described. Such requirements might

similar events, the contractor may have made a

include process or engineering limits on physical

commitment to DOE that all dampers and valves

parameters such as temperature, pressure,

will have positive position indicators provided. In

concentrations, feed rate, ph, heat transfer rates,

that case, this commitment would be identified as a

chemical compositions (for example, amount or

requirement for the system, and a reference made to

concentration of impurities allowable). Other

the appropriate document(s) that provide the

requirements might relate to the type of process (that

commitment. Such commitments may be contained

is, continuous or batch, reactive or non-reactive),

in occurrence reports, correspondence, or other

waste generation considerations, or necessary

documents.

process evolutions (for example, hold times,

agitation rates).

3.3.4 Electrical Power

3.3 Engineering Disciplinary

Requirements

This subsection shall identify those electrical power

engineering requirements (and their bases) related to

This section should identify those requirements and

the system being described. In most cases, these

bases that are typically related to particular

will involve the need for electrical power at a

disciplines of engineering.

particular voltage level, current, frequency, or

quality. In some cases, however, these requirements

3.3.1 Civil and Structural

might involve providing electrical power for other

systems. Examples of these later cases would be

This subsection shall identify those civil and

systems that include diesel generators, motor-

structural engineering requirements (and their bases)

generator sets, uninterruptible power supplies, or

related to the system being described. This section

battery banks. Such systems would typically

should include only the civil or structural

include the associated electrical distribution system

requirements for a typical facility such as may be

plus automatic and manual transfer features and the

found in the Uniform Building Code. Examples of

associated alternate power paths or circuits.

requirements to be included are anchorage, bracing,

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