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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2022.01.015

Design of digital nuclear power small reactor once-through steam generator control system  

Qian, Hong (Shanghai University of Electric Power)
Zou, Mingyao (Shanghai University of Electric Power)
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.54, no.7, 2022 , pp. 2435-2443 More about this Journal
Abstract
The once-through steam generator used in the small modular reactor needs to consider the stability of the outlet steam pressure and steam superheat of the secondary circuit to achieve better operating efficiency. For this reason, this paper designs a controllable operation scheme for the steam pressure and superheat of the small reactor once-through steam generator. On this basis, designs a variable universe fuzzy controller, first, design the fuzzy control rules to make the controller adjust the PI controller parameters according to the change of the error; secondly, use the domain adjustment factor to further subdivide the input and output domain of the fuzzy controller according to the change of the error, to improve the system control performance. The simulation results show that the operation scheme proposed in this paper have better system performance than the original scheme of the small reactor system, and controller proposed in this paper have better control performance than traditional PI controller and fuzzy PI controller, what's more, the designed control system also showed better anti-disturbance performance in lifting experiment between 100% and 80% working conditions. Finally, the experimental platform formed by connecting the digital small reactor with Matlab/Simulink through OPC(OLE for Process Control) communication technology also verified the feasibility of the proposed scheme.
Keywords
Small modular reactor; Once-through steam generator; Steam pressure and superheat control; Variable universe fuzzy controller;
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