KANUPP Institute of Nuclear Power Engineering

DEVELOPMENT OF CHANNEL TEMPERATURE, COOLANT PRESSURE AND STEAM PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM AND ESTIMATOR DESIGN FOR TEMPERATURE TILT, CHANNEL POWER, PRIMARY AND SECONDARY GLOBAL POWERS AND LOAD REDUCTION FOR KANUPP IN LabVIEWDr. Arshad Habib Malik, PE (KINPOE)Field of Project:

Nuclear Power Plant Dynamics and Control

Number of Students and Pre-requisites:

For this project following are the pre-requisites:

(1)Two students of Electrical / Electronic / Mechatronics and Control Engineering background. (2)Nuclear Reactor Dynamics & Control and Nuclear Reactor Instrumentation & Control are the pre-requisite courses for fellows to opt in third and fourth semester for this project.

Type of Work:

Analytical and Computational

Problem Statement:

Reactivity monitoring and investigation is one of the challenges in nuclear power plants. In this project, a data driven comprehensive monitoring system is required to be developed which is to be used as decision support system for KANUPP. Project Objectives:

In this project following are the project objectives:

(1) Identification of critical primary and secondary parameters for monitoring system.

(2) Development of estimation system for decision support system for KANUPP for critical assessments.

(3) Validation of results with benchmark available results.

(4) Development of prototype simulator for dynamic analysis of KANUPP.

Methodology:

In this project following methodology will be adopted:

(1) Amongst various parameters, selection of critical parameters for test bench and development of monitoring system for channel temperatures, coolant pressures and steam pressures.

(2) Development of estimation logic for temperature tilt in core, channel power computations, primary and secondary global powers, power reduction rates under load reduction tests.

(3) Development of prototype simulator based on data driven approach and estimation logic under different scenarios of KANUPP.

Importance of project: Following features covers the practicality and usefulness of proposed project:(1) It provides a prototype training simulator for fellows and trainees.(2) It provides detail understanding of plant parameters and their variations under transient conditions. Scope of Project:

Following features covers depth of proposed project:

(1) To provide simplified analytical facility for nuclear power plant analysis.

(2) To provide a simplified and new estimation based tool for KANUPP.PAGE 1