Investigation of Spatial Control Strategies for AHWR: A Comparative Study

Large nuclear reactors such as the Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR), are susceptible to xenon-induced spatial oscillations in which, though the core average power remains constant, the power distribution may be nonuniform as well as it might experience unstable oscillations. Such oscillations influence the operation and control philosophy and could also drive safety issues. Therefore, large nuclear reactors are equipped with spatial controllers which maintain the core power distribution close to desired distribution during all the facets of operation and following disturbances. In this paper, the case of AHWR has been considered, for which a number of different types of spatial controllers have been designed during the last decade. Some of these designs are based on output feedback while the others are based on state feedback. Also, both the conventional and modern control concepts, such as linear quadratic regulator theory, sliding mode control, multirate output feedback control and fuzzy control have been investigated. The designs of these different controllers for the AHWR have been carried out using a 90th order model, which is highly stiff. Hence, direct application of design methods suffers with numerical ill-conditioning. Singular perturbation and time-scale methods have been applied whereby the design problem for the original higher order system is decoupled into two or three subproblems, each of which is solved separately. Nonlinear simulations have been carried out to obtain the transient responses of the system with different types of controllers and their performances have been compared.

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