Automatic control of a heat exchanger in a nuclear power station: The classical and the fuzzy methods

Abstract

Without electricity everyday life would be difficult to be envisaged, it is therefore necessary to know how to produce it effectively and continuously. To meet the growing consumption of electricity, it was crucial to build factories capable of producing electricity with huge capacities. In recent years, nuclear techniques have undergone considerable development, characterized by the implementation of multiple disciplines. Wherein, automation has taken an important part of these developments. Driving the industrial equipment in safety mode, treating the information with many variables and actions' adjustment, can be ensured by analogical/digital automatic systems. This paper highlights control techniques of heat exchanger in a nuclear power station with disturbance compensation systems. Moreover, the fuzzy technique has been proposed to derive the control system. The main objective of this manuscript is to determine a prototype control model for an intelligent heat exchanger in a nuclear power reactor. Experimental data of BRENILLIS power plant has been used for the identification and modeling of the reactor. Furthermore, the transfer functions developed by the C.S.F and “Electricité de France” have been considered for the purpose of automating the nuclear power station