Nuclear Engineering and Technology

Korean Nuclear Society (한국원자력학회)
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NONLINEAR CONTROL FOR CORE POWER OF PRESSURIZED WATER NUCLEAR REACTORS USING CONSTANT AXIAL OFFSET STRATEGY

  • ANSARIFAR, GHOLAM REZA (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, University of Isfahan) ;
  • SAADATZI, SAEED (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, University of Isfahan)
  • Received : 2015.03.27
  • Accepted : 2015.06.30
  • Published : 2015.12.25
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Abstract

One of the most important operations in nuclear power plants is load following, in which an imbalance of axial power distribution induces xenon oscillations. These oscillations must be maintained within acceptable limits otherwise the nuclear power plant could become unstable. Therefore, bounded xenon oscillation is considered to be a constraint for the load following operation. In this paper, the design of a sliding mode control (SMC), which is a robust nonlinear controller, is presented.SMCis ameansto control pressurized water nuclear reactor (PWR) power for the load following operation problem in a way that ensures xenon oscillations are kept bounded within acceptable limits. The proposed controller uses constant axial offset (AO) strategy to ensure xenon oscillations remain bounded. The constant AO is a robust state constraint for the load following problem. The reactor core is simulated based on the two-point nuclear reactor model with a three delayed neutron groups. The stability analysis is given by means of the Lyapunov approach, thus the control system is guaranteed to be stable within a large range. The employed method is easy to implement in practical applications and moreover, the SMC exhibits the desired dynamic properties during the entire output-tracking process independent of perturbations. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller in terms of performance, robustness, and stability. Results show that the proposed controller for the load following operation is so effective that the xenon oscillations are kept bounded in the given region.

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