Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes 1991

Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes 1991
Author: B. Freyermuth
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 647
Release: 2014-05-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1483299031

These Proceedings provide a general overview as well as detailed information on the developing field of reliability and safety of technical processes in automatically controlled processes. The plenary papers present the state-of-the-art and an overview in the areas of aircraft and nuclear power stations, because these safety-critical system domains possess the most highly developed fault management and supervision schemes. Additional plenary papers covered the recent developments in analytical redundancy. In total there are 95 papers presented in these Proceedings.

Application of Noise-analysis Methods to Monitor Stability of Boiling Water Reactors

Application of Noise-analysis Methods to Monitor Stability of Boiling Water Reactors
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Release: 1981
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The dynamic stability of Boiling Water Reactors (BWR's) is influenced by the reactor control system and its interaction with external load demand, channel thermal hydraulic properties, and coupled neutronic-thermal-hydraulic dynamics. The latter aspect of BWR stability which is affected by void reactivity feedback, coolant flow rate and fuel-to-coolant heat transfer characteristics is studied in this paper using the normal fluctuation data. The feasibility of overall core stability trend monitoring using neutron noise and the relatonship between stability and two-phase flow velocity in a fuel channel are studied. Time series modeling of the average power range monitor (APRM) detector signal, and bivariate analysis of adjacent local power range monitor (LPRM) detector signals are used to determine the neutron impulse response, spectral characteristics and two-phase flow velocity using data from an operating BWR. The results of analysis show that the APRM noise signal can be used to monitor changes in the closed-loop output stability of BWRs (but not the absolute stability as determined by the reactivity-to-neutron power transfer function), and that a positive correlation exists between stability and two-phase flow velocity in a fuel channel.