NDLI: Selection of Steam Drum Level Control Method for Multiple Drum Interacting Loops Pressure Tube-Type BWR

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Author	Gaikwad, A.J. Vijayan, P.K. Bhartiya, S. Kumar, R. Lele, H.G. Vaze, K.K.
Copyright Year	1963
Abstract	Three element Steam Drum (SD) Level Controller has been conventionally used for most of the boilers, Nuclear power plant steam generator & Boiling Water Reactor (BWRs). Based on the process dynamic studies it was found that this scheme does not work properly for an interacting, interconnected multiple loop boiling water system i.e., Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR). It is a pressure tube type light water cooled heavy water moderated Boiling Water Reactor (BWR). It has 4-inter-connected parallel loops with 113 × 4 = 452 boiling channels in the Main Heat Transport (MHT) system. These multiple (four) interconnected loops influences the Steam Drum (SD) level control adversely. Such a behavior has not been reported in the open literature. The open loop response is stable, non-oscillatory and non-diverging for a step change in the feed flow rates. Also it is not possible to maintain a steady level in all the SDs even without any external disturbance/perturbation with 4 conventional 3-element individual SD level controllers. To overcome these interactions it is proposed to interconnect all the four steam drums in the liquid & vapor regions respectively. This makes the 4 SDs behave like a single entity. The influence of the interconnect configuration & the level controller are studied in detail to find a robust solution. The response obtained for unsymmetrical core power, symmetrical power maneuvering and reactor trip transients shows that the SD levels do not diverge and quickly settle very near to the set points assigned with SD interconnect schemes.
Sponsorship	IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (CANPS) Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. APS College of William and Mary Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility NASA Defence Nuclear Agency Sandia National Laboratories Jet Propulsion Laboratory Brookhaven Nat. Lab. Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab IEEE/NPPS Radiat. Effects Committee Defence Nuclear Agency/DoD Sandia National Laboratories/DOE Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Phillips Lab./DoD
Starting Page	479
Ending Page	489
Page Count	11
File Size	1657051
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189499
Volume Number	58
Issue Number	2
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-04-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Inductors Level control Feeds Coolants Mathematical model Joining processes Process control three element level control Interacting loops natural circulation RELAP5 steam drum
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nuclear and High Energy Physics Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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