Reactor Condition Monitoring via Wavelet Transform De-noising

  • Park, Chang-Je (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Department of Nuclear Engineering) ;
  • Cho, Nam-Zin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Department of Nuclear Engineering)
  • Published : 1996.11.01

Abstract

Wavelets are localized in space and in frequency. This localization properties result from the multiresolution analysis of wavelets. The wavelet transform can be used to detect singularity of dynamic systems after the signal is de-noised. We applied the wavelet transform decomposition and do-noising procedures to the Hanaro dynamics consisting of 39 nonlinear differential equation plus Gaussian noise. The numerical tests demonstrate that the wavelet transform de-noising is effective for detection of the abrupt reactivity change and computationally efficient. Thus this wavelet theory could be profitably utilized in a real-time system for automatic event recognition (e.g., reactor condition monitoring).

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