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Development and testing of an Integrated Signal Validation System for nuclear power plants: Annual report for the period September 30, 1987--September 29, 1988

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6628053
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The objective of the university-industry joint research program at the University of Tennessee and its subcontractor, Combustion Engineering, Inc., is to develop and implement a comprehensive signal validation system for current power plants and future advanced reactors. In large power generating systems and process control systems, outputs from several hundred instrumentation channels are used in control systems, protection systems and plant monitoring systems. The routine validation of these signals is very useful in increasing the reliability of operation decisions, in improving the plant control actions and in minimizing plant downtime. The comprehensive signal validation system developed under this project consists of several parallel signal processing modules, and their integrated information is used to detect, isolate and characterize faulty signals. The application of the various signal validation techniques may be extended to such problems as predictive maintenance advising and instrumentation calibration reduction, and for the development of intelligent instrumentation systems.
Research Organization:
Tennessee Univ., Knoxville (USA). Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-86NE37959
OSTI ID:
6628053
Report Number(s):
DOE/NE/37959-24; ON: DE89003519
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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