Testing of a Reactor Control System in Closed-Loop

Author

Petruzela, I.

Author_Institution

Data Syst. & Solutions, Prague

fYear

2007

fDate

4-7 June 2007

Firstpage

314

Lastpage

317

Abstract

Paper describes hardware closed-loop testing, when controller is connected with simulator. Such dynamic testing tool can save time and reduce risk before commission of new control systems. It allows to detect failures and to find proper gains setup of controller in factory. Testing of Reactor control system is showed as example. Reactor controller is a part of control system modernization at Dukovany nuclear power plant and it was built on SPINLINE 3 technology. Closed-loop testing has allowed deeply verification of controller before installation on site. Tests results have confirmed that behavior of new digital controller is the same as old analogue one. Closed-loop testing was one of major assumptions of unit commissioning on time.

Keywords

closed loop systems; fission reactors; nuclear power stations; power engineering computing; testing; digital controller; dynamic testing; hardware closed-loop testing; nuclear power plant; reactor control system testing; reactor controller; simulator; Assembly systems; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Inductors; Open loop systems; Performance evaluation; Power generation; Process control; Production facilities; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2007. ISIE 2007. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Vigo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0754-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0755-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2007.4374618

Filename

4374618