Gain scheduled steam drum level controller for Advanced Heavy Water Reactor

Author

Sairam, K.N.V. ; Bhatt, Tarang Upendra ; Tiwari, Akhilanand P.

Author_Institution

Reactor Control Div., Bhabha Atomic Res. Centre, Mumbai, India

fYear

2013

fDate

28-30 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

1218

Lastpage

1223

Abstract

Gain scheduled P-I plus feed forward controller is designed for the steam drum level of Advanced Heavy Water Reactor(AHWR) by incorporating the coupling effects due to reactor power and steam pressure transients under Alternate and Normal mode of reactor operation. A simplified thermal hydraulics model is developed for the controller design which incorporates swell and shrink effects of steam drum level as well as varying plant dynamics.

Keywords

PI control; control system synthesis; feedforward; fission reactor cooling; fission reactor core control; heavy water reactors; hydraulic control equipment; level control; AHWR; advanced heavy water reactor; coupling effects; gain scheduled PI plus feed forward controller design; gain scheduled steam drum level controller; normal reactor operation; reactor power; reactor power transients; shrink effects; simplified thermal hydraulic model; steam pressure transients; swell effects; varying plant dynamics; Coolants; Equations; Feeds; Inductors; Mathematical model; Steady-state; Water heating;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Applications (CCA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hyderabad

ISSN

1085-1992

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCA.2013.6662918

Filename

6662918