Simulation and control of a passively cooled small modular reactor Samet - 142
- School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-5706 (United States)
This work regulates a small modular reactor (SMR) with traditional control methodologies and analyzes its response to typical disturbances. An analytical model for the passively cooled NuScale SMR is developed to represent the essential dynamics. The MATLAB/Simulink based model consists of reactor core, steam generator, pressurizer, hot leg riser and downcomer, and turbine representations. The point kinetics equations with a single combined neutron precursor group and the lumped parameter representations with single-phase natural circulation account for the neutronics and thermohydraulics in the reactor core. A lumped parameter, moving-boundary approach forms the basis of the nonlinear model adopted for the once-through helical-coil heat exchangers in which boundaries between regions of different fluid states (i.e., subcooled, boiling, and superheated) vary over time. A proportional-integral-derivative controller employing a sliding-average temperature strategy commonly used for pressurized water reactors is implemented. The responses of the SMR to two different disturbances are analyzed and discussed in detail. For the first scenario, a 5% step increase in the load is applied to the system, which results in a change in the steam valve opening. For comparison, two different simulations under this same disturbance are run: one including and one excluding the control systems. The second scenario tests the effectiveness of the control system to increase (or decrease) the reactor thermal power to a certain level within a desired time period. The simulation results show that important system variables are kept at the desired values by the proposed control strategy. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 23035280
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: NPIC and HIMIT 2017: 10. International Conference on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies, San Francisco, CA (United States), 11-15 Jun 2017; Other Information: Country of input: France; 11 refs.; available from American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (US)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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