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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2021.02.018

Control of a pressurized light-water nuclear reactor two-point kinetics model with the performance index-oriented PSO  

Mousakazemi, Seyed Mohammad Hossein (Department of Physics, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Payame Noor University)
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.53, no.8, 2021 , pp. 2556-2563 More about this Journal
Abstract
Metaheuristic algorithms can work well in solving or optimizing problems, especially those that require approximation or do not have a good analytical solution. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is one of these algorithms. The response quality of these algorithms depends on the objective function and its regulated parameters. The nonlinear nature of the pressurized light-water nuclear reactor (PWR) dynamics is a significant target for PSO. The two-point kinetics model of this type of reactor is used because of fission products properties. The proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller is intended to control the power level of the PWR at a short-time transient. The absolute error (IAE), integral of square error (ISE), integral of time-absolute error (ITAE), and integral of time-square error (ITSE) objective functions have been used as performance indexes to tune the PID gains with PSO. The optimization results with each of them are evaluated with the number of function evaluations (NFE). All performance indexes achieve good results with differences in the rate of over/under-shoot or convergence rate of the cost function, in the desired time domain.
Keywords
Pressurized light-water reactor two-point kinetics model; Integral of the absolute error (IAE); Integral of square error (ISE); Integral of time-absolute error (ITAE); Integral of time-square error (ITSE); Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller;
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