Title :
Trends in data acquisition for testing in nuclear power stations
Author :
Mazalerat, J.M. ; Favennec, J.-M.
Author_Institution :
Electricite de France, St. Denis, France
Abstract :
Electricite de France (EDF), the French electric utility, performs extensive testing on its nuclear power plants for commissioning needs or optimization purposes. The required instrumentation must meet demanding metrological, functional, and technological specifications. Smart sensors are a significant step in instrumentation. They provide higher accuracy of measurement, identification and validation of information, and consistent data. The authors described EDF´s strategy for the architecture, power supply, communication, and configuration of smart sensor systems for testing needs. Tests performed on the Saint Alban power plant demonstrate the feasibility of the distributed consumption test-system concept, which allows decentralization of measurement acquisition and estimation of the amount of money saved by reduced wiring
Keywords :
computerised instrumentation; data acquisition; nuclear engineering computing; nuclear power stations; EDF; Electricite de France; Saint Alban power plant; data acquisition; identification; instrumentation; measurement; nuclear power stations; testing; validation; Data acquisition; Instruments; Intelligent sensors; Performance evaluation; Power generation; Power industry; Power measurement; Power supplies; System testing; Wiring;
Conference_Titel :
CompEuro '89., 'VLSI and Computer Peripherals. VLSI and Microelectronic Applications in Intelligent Peripherals and their Interconnection Networks', Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1940-6
DOI :
10.1109/CMPEUR.1989.93423
