Validation of sPEeD: A study aimed to validate the analysis program sPEeD12953

Abstract: Shell boilers used in Sweden and Europe has to be certified before being used. Kiwa Sweden performs the role as an accredited third party for control services within most industries in Sweden. Kiwa Sweden has acquired an analysis program called  sPEeD12953 from the danish company Danish Exergy Technology (DXT). The analysis program sPEeD has previously not yet been validated and therefore, Kiwa can not use this program as a stand alone tool in their reviews of shell boilers. In order for Kiwa to be able to use the analysis program as more than just a support program, it has to be validated and quality assured. There are two versions of the program sPEeD, one called 2002 version and one called 2016 version. In this thesis, only the version called 2016 is investigated. This thesis was aimed to validate the analysis program sPEeD12953. The result of this study shows that the program sPEeD12953 performs well on most parts and gives good results. However, some of the calculation part of the program gives the wrong result according to the standard. Most of these errors are on the conservative side. Conservative errors leads to that if the user obtains a result that shows that the part of the boiler is okay, then it can be used. However, if the user obtains a not okay result in sPEeD, the user is required to perform additional calculations with another tool. A few results ended up with non-conservative results and these parts of the program can therefore not be used without the use of additional tools. The program can because of this not be fully validated and the software provider has to resolve these issues before the software can be considered fully validated.