Adaptive nuclear reactor control for integral quadratic cost functions
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
Model identification for adaptive control of nuclear power plants
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
An algorithm for non-linear space-Time nuclear reactor control
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
Paper: Optimum control of neutron flux during nuclear station load following
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
Brief paper: A discrete-time algorithm for nuclear reactor spatial control
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
| Hi-index | 22.15 |
An optimal control algorithm for reactor reactivity controls during CANDU& nuclear station load cycling is presented. The minimized performance index is reactor operating cost during a load cycling interval. The algorithm is developed using Pontryagin's Maximum principle. A novel non-iterative technique for determining the adjoint multiplier initial values in the resulting two point boundary value problem is used. The analysis considers standard fuel, booster fuel, moderator poison and liquid zone controllers as available reactivity control devices.