Title :
Sizewell B integrated control and instrumentation system: a vision becomes reality
Author :
Remley, G.W. ; Cook, B.M. ; Loftus, P.A.
Author_Institution :
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
Nuclear Electric´s Sizewell B station is an 1188 MW PWR located in Suffolk, UK. The Westinghouse supplied control and instrumentation system for the Sizewell B station represents the first implementation of this state-of-the-art digital technology in an integrated plant-wide protection, control, and computer system. The benefits of the Westinghouse approach are enumerated
Keywords :
computerised instrumentation; digital control; nuclear power stations; power station computer control; 1180 MW; Sizewell B; integrated control and instrumentation system; Centralized control; Control systems; Instruments; Job shop scheduling; Machine vision; Power system protection; Process control; Processor scheduling; Road transportation; Size control;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1992., Conference Record of the 1992 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0884-0
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.1992.301382
