The power level control of a pressurised water reactor nuclear power plant

• 主要な著者: Mahendra Kumar, Jothi Letchumy, Anwar, P. P. Abdul Majeed, Muhammad Aizzat, Zakaria, Mohd Azraai, Mohd Razman, Ismail, Mohd Khairuddin
• フォーマット: Conference or Workshop Item
• 言語: English
• 出版事項: Springer, Singapore 2020
• 主題: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery; TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• オンライン･アクセス: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/27729/1/The%20power%20level%20control%20of%20a%20pressurised%20water%20reactor%20.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/27729/; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9539-0_43

The control system of a reactor core in a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is non-trivial to ensure safe operation of a nuclear power plant. Owing to the complex and non-linear characteristics of a nuclear power plant, it is, therefore, essential to control the power in load following condition through the regulation of the reactor core. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the efficacy of different variation of classical control schemes, namely, P, PI, PD and PID to control the power level output. The reactor core model is based on the H.B. Robinson Pressurised Water Reactor NPP. The control schemes evaluated were tuned based on the Ziegler-Nichols tuning method. It was demonstrated through the following simulation investigation that the PID control scheme is appropriate in regulating the power level.