Control and supervision of a complex production process using hybrid systems techniques

Author

Garcia, Humberto E.

Author_Institution

Argonne Nat. Lab., Idaho Falls, ID, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

6-10 Nov 1995

Firstpage

63

Lastpage

67

Abstract

New processing activities for the decommissioning of the Experimental Breeder Reactor II are being carried out at Argonne National Laboratory. The task addressed in this paper is a process to convert metallic sodium to sodium carbonate. The main idea is to characterize this sodium operation as a system that integrates real-time continuous and discrete-event components and then apply hybrid system techniques to design and implement the control and supervisory policies. This paper introduces the research in progress at ANL on this conversion process, the flow of material, and the hybrid control solution

Keywords

fission reactor core control; fission research reactors; nuclear engineering computing; Argonne National Laboratory; Experimental Breeder Reactor II; complex production process supervision; hybrid control solution; hybrid system techniques; hybrid systems techniques; metallic sodium; sodium carbonate; Actuators; Carbon dioxide; Chemicals; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Coolants; Drives; Inductors; Laboratories; Production systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, 1995. Held jointly with 5th CSESAW, 3rd IEEE RTAW and 20th IFAC/IFIP WRTP, Proceedings., First IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7123-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECCS.1995.479305

Filename

479305