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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2018.04.016

Control of the pressurized water nuclear reactors power using optimized proportional-integral-derivative controller with particle swarm optimization algorithm  

Mousakazemi, Seyed Mohammad Hossein (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, University of Isfahan)
Ayoobian, Navid (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, University of Isfahan)
Ansarifar, Gholam Reza (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, University of Isfahan)
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.50, no.6, 2018 , pp. 877-885 More about this Journal
Abstract
Various controllers such as proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers have been designed and optimized for load-following issues in nuclear reactors. To achieve high performance, gain tuning is of great importance in PID controllers. In this work, gains of a PID controller are optimized for power-level control of a typical pressurized water reactor using particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The point kinetic is used as a reactor power model. In PSO, the objective (cost) function defined by decision variables including overshoot, settling time, and stabilization time (stability condition) must be minimized (optimized). Stability condition is guaranteed by Lyapunov synthesis. The simulation results demonstrated good stability and high performance of the closed-loop PSO-PID controller to response power demand.
Keywords
Gain Tuning; Lyapunov Stability Approach; Particle Swarm Optimization; Pressurized Water Reactor; Proportional-Integral-Derivative; Controller; Optimization;
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