Advanced nuclear plant control room complex

Patent · Tue Jul 13 04:00:00 EDT 1993

OSTI ID:6293533

Scarola, K; Jamison, D S; Manazir, R M; Rescorl, R L; Harmon, V; Harmon, D L

A control room complex is described for a nuclear power plant, the plant having a multiplicity of components and sensors outside of the control room, the complex comprising: a main control room having at least one console which includes parameter indicators for displaying values of plant operating parameters, alarms for warning of an abnormal condition in a parameter or component, controllers for operating components and indicating the status of the controlled component, a screen for generating visual images of fluidly connected components, values of associated operating parameters, and component status, and means for manually tripping the reactor; a first type of digital processor means associated with the parameter indicators, alarms, and controllers; a second type of digital processor means associated with the screen; a plant protection system and associated third type of digital processing means, responsive to at least some of the plant sensors, for automatically tripping the reactor upon the occurrence of an unsafe event; a safeguards system for controlling at least some of the plant components upon the occurrence of an unsafe event; a component control system for controlling the plant components during normal operation; a power control system for controlling reactor power level; means for transmitting data from the protection system, the safeguards system, the component control system, and the power control system to each of the first and second digital processor means; means in each of the first and second types of digital processing means for independently computing representative values of plant parameters; means for transmitting data between the first and second types of digital processor means; means associated with the second type of processor, for providing said screen with display values of operating parameters that are based on a comparison of the representative values from the first and second types of processors.

• Assignee: Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT (United States)
• Patent Number(s): US 5227121; A
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-927051
• OSTI ID: 6293533
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
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ALARM SYSTEMS
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COMPUTER-GRAPHICS DEVICES
COMPUTERIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS
COMPUTERS
CONSOLES
CONTROL EQUIPMENT
CONTROL ROOMS
CONTROL SYSTEMS
DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
DESIGN
DIGITAL COMPUTERS
DISPLAY DEVICES
ENGINEERED SAFETY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
ON-LINE CONTROL SYSTEMS
ON-LINE SYSTEMS
POWER PLANTS
REACTOR CONTROL SYSTEMS
REACTOR INSTRUMENTATION
REACTOR MONITORING SYSTEMS
REACTOR PROTECTION SYSTEMS
THERMAL POWER PLANTS