Thermal performance monitoring and assessment in Dukovany nuclear power plant
- Chemplant Technology s.r.o., Hrncirska 4, 400 01 Usti nad Labem (Czech Republic)
- CEZ a.s., JE Dukovany, 675 50 Dukovany (Czech Republic)
- I and C ENERGO a.s., Prazska 684, 674 01 Trebic (Czech Republic)
Competition in the European electricity market forces generators to achieve - in compliance with safety and environmental standards - efficiency of production as high as possible. This efficiency or heat rate is an important indicator of both the condition of the plant equipment and the quality of plant operation. Similar thermal performance indicators can also be calculated for components of the plant equipment such as heat exchangers. However, it is not easy to quantify these indicators with sufficient precision so that the results can be used for conduct of plant operation in near-real time and for predictive maintenance. This paper describes a present state of the system monitoring and evaluating thermal performance of the reactor units in Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant. The system provides information on actual and desirable (should-be) values of thermal performance indicators for control room operators, performance engineers and maintenance planners. The system is designed to monitor steady states and has two main functions: data validation and process simulation. Data validation is based on data reconciliation methodology and carried out with Recon software by Chemplant Technology. A detailed model of the secondary side for mass and heat balancing has been made up by means of the Recon's graphical editor; now it contains roughly 300 flows and employs data of about 200 measurements. Main advantages of the data reconciliation are: - reconciled data are consistent with the model, - reconciled data are more precise than data directly measured with consequence that the thermal power of steam generators is determined with substantially lower uncertainty than before - data reconciliation represents a solid basis for detection and identification of data corrupted by gross errors. Simulation is performed with a different analytical model of plant components configured into secondary side. The model has been developed by I and C Energo. Main purposes of simulation are: - the calculation of performance indicators and output capacity for a desirable state of the plant equipment and mode of operation. Boundary conditions for the calculation are taken from the preceding data reconciliation procedure. Control room operators (in near-real time) and performance engineers then can compare an actual and ideal state of the performance indicators. - 'what-if' analysis and efficiency optimization based on varying user selected parameters of the plant components and flow-sheet structure changes. The system is integrated into an overall nuclear power plant process information system and data warehouse. The solution is based on the Industrial SQL server database and the InTouch human machine interface by Invensys' Wonderware. The system nowadays works with hourly averages of process data and monitors secondary side of the Dukovany units No. 1 and 3 from steam generators to alternators. A detailed description of the system and some obtained results are presented. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22030103
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: NPIC and HMIT 2006: 5. International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation Controls, and Human Machine Interface Technology, Albuquerque, NM (United States), 12-16 Nov 2006; Other Information: Country of input: France; 10 refs.; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the 5. International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation Controls, and Human Machine Interface Technology| 1430 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ALTERNATORS
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
COMPUTER CODES
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
CONTROL ROOMS
DUKOVANY-1 REACTOR
DUKOVANY-2 REACTOR
ERRORS
HEAT EXCHANGERS
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MAINTENANCE
MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS
MONITORING
PROCESS CONTROL
REACTOR MONITORING SYSTEMS
REACTOR OPERATORS
REAL TIME SYSTEMS
STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS
STEAM GENERATORS