Supervisory Control System Architecture for Advanced Small Modular Reactors

Technical Report · Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1107831· OSTI ID:1107831

Cetiner, Sacit M ^[1]; Cole, Daniel L ^[2]; Fugate, David L ^[1]; Kisner, Roger A ^[1]; Melin, Alexander M ^[1]; Muhlheim, Michael David ^[1]; Rao, Nageswara S ^[1]; Wood, Richard Thomas ^[1]

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1. ORNL
2. University of Pittsburgh

This technical report was generated as a product of the Supervisory Control for Multi-Modular SMR Plants project within the Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface technology area under the Advanced Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Research and Development Program of the U.S. Department of Energy. The report documents the definition of strategies, functional elements, and the structural architecture of a supervisory control system for multi-modular advanced SMR (AdvSMR) plants. This research activity advances the state-of-the art by incorporating decision making into the supervisory control system architectural layers through the introduction of a tiered-plant system approach. The report provides a brief history of hierarchical functional architectures and the current state-of-the-art, describes a reference AdvSMR to show the dependencies between systems, presents a hierarchical structure for supervisory control, indicates the importance of understanding trip setpoints, applies a new theoretic approach for comparing architectures, identifies cyber security controls that should be addressed early in system design, and describes ongoing work to develop system requirements and hardware/software configurations.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1107831
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-2013/320; RC0113000; NERC014; SMR/ICHMI/ORNL/TR-2013/04
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English