TY - JOUR
T1 - The power level control of a pressurised water reactor nuclear power plant
AU - Mahendra Kumar, Jothi Letchumy
AU - Abdul Majeed, Anwar P.P.
AU - Zakaria, Muhammad Aizzat
AU - Mohd Razman, Mohd Azraai
AU - Khairuddin, Mohd Ismail
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - PID controller
KW - Pressurized water reactor
KW - Reactor core
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-13-9539-0_43
DO - 10.1007/978-981-13-9539-0_43
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85071304186
SN - 2195-4356
SP - 451
EP - 455
JO - Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
JF - Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
T2 - 2nd Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing and Mechatronics, SympoSIMM 2019
Y2 - 8 July 2019 through 8 July 2019
ER -