Advanced BWR stability monitoring tests with a hybrid reactor facility

Conference · Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2002

OSTI ID:21167931

He, Weidong; Huang, Zhengyu; Edwards, Robert M ^[1]

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1. Pennsylvania State University 228 Reber Building, University Park, PA 16802 (United States)

A stability monitor for a boiling reactor is implemented and evaluated with the Penn State Hybrid Reactor System. The stability monitor is based on an extended Kalman filter which employs a reduced-order BWR reactor model. The filter uses measured power signal and estimates the void reactivity feedback gain and the decay ratio. The hybrid reactor system is a system combining a simulation module of BWR thermal hydraulics and the Penn State TRIGA reactor. A description of the hybrid system is also presented. (authors)

• Research Organization: American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
• OSTI ID: 21167931
• Resource Relation: Conference: ICAPP'02: 2002 International congress on advances in nuclear power plants, Hollywood, FL (United States), 9-13 Jun 2002; Other Information: Country of input: France; 7 refs
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
BOILING
BWR TYPE REACTORS
DECAY
FILTERS
GAIN
HYBRID REACTORS
HYBRID SYSTEMS
MONITORING
MONITORS
REACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS
SIGNALS
SIMULATION
STABILITY
THERMAL HYDRAULICS