• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.396-410
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• 2018

To assist operators to properly assess the current situation of the plant, accurate fault diagnosis methodology should be available and used. A reliable fault diagnosis method is beneficial for the safety of nuclear power plants. The major idea proposed in this work is integrating the merits of different fault diagnosis methodologies to offset their obvious disadvantages and enhance the accuracy and credibility of on-line fault diagnosis. This methodology uses the principle component analysis-based model and multi-flow model to diagnose fault type. To ensure the accuracy of results from the multi-flow model, a mechanical simulation model is implemented to do the quantitative calculation. More significantly, mechanism simulation is implemented to provide training data with fault signatures. Furthermore, one of the distance formulas in similarity measurement-Mahalanobis distance-is applied for on-line failure degree evaluation. The performance of this methodology was evaluated by applying it to the reactor coolant system of a pressurized water reactor. The results of simulation analysis show the effectiveness and accuracy of this methodology, leading to better confidence of it being integrated as a part of the computerized operator support system to assist operators in decision-making.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권6호
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• pp.2096-2106
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• 2023

Rotating machinery is widely applied in important equipment of nuclear power plants (NPPs), such as pumps and valves. The research on intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating machinery is crucial to ensure the safe operation of related equipment in NPPs. However, in practical applications, data-driven fault diagnosis faces the problem of small and imbalanced samples, resulting in low model training efficiency and poor generalization performance. Therefore, a deep convolutional conditional generative adversarial network (DCCGAN) is constructed to mitigate the impact of imbalanced samples on fault diagnosis. First, a conditional generative adversarial model is designed based on convolutional neural networks to effectively augment imbalanced samples. The original sample features can be effectively extracted by the model based on conditional generative adversarial strategy and appropriate number of filters. In addition, high-quality generated samples are ensured through the visualization of model training process and samples features. Then, a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) is designed to extract features of mixed samples and implement intelligent fault diagnosis. Finally, based on multi-fault experimental data of motor and bearing, the performance of DCCGAN model for data augmentation and intelligent fault diagnosis is verified. The proposed method effectively alleviates the problem of imbalanced samples, and shows its application value in intelligent fault diagnosis of actual NPPs.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.10-19
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• 1990

A fault tolerant control system, in which a digital back-up controller system is added on the existing analog control system, is developed for enhancing reliability of boiler control system in power plant. The digital back-up controller system(DBCS) has a multi-processor structure with capabilities of fault diagnosis, back-up control, self test, and graphic monitoring. Specifically, switching mechanism composed of expandable modules is designed so that back-up controller takes over any faulty control loops and the number of back-up control loops is determined as that of simultaneous faults. A process simulator that simulates the boiler analog control system is developed for safety test and performance evaluation prior to real plant application. DBCS is installed at the Ulsan thermal power plant, and fault tolerant control performance is assured under the faults that some controller modules are pulled out.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.73-82
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• 2004

The deaerator of a power plant is one of feedwater heaters in the secondary system, and it is located above the feedwater pumps. The feedwater pumps take the water from the deaerator storage tank, and the net positive suction head(NSPH) should always be ensured. To secure the sufficient NPSH, the deaerator tank is equipped with the level control system of which level sensors are critical items. And it is necessary to ascertain the sensor state on-line. For this, a model-based fault detection and diagnosis(FDD) is introduced in this study. The dynamic control model is formulated from the relation of input-output flow rates and liquid-level of the deaerator storage tank. Then an adaptive state estimator is designed for the fault detection and diagnosis of sensors. The performance and effectiveness of the proposed FDD scheme are evaluated by applying the operation data of Yonggwang Units 3 & 4.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제31B권10호
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• pp.53-66
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• 1994

In this paper, a fuzzy expert system is developed for fault diagnoisis of a drum-type boiler system in fossil power plants. The develped fuzzy espert system is composed of knowledge base, fuzzification module, knowledge base process module, knowledge base management module, inference module, and linguistic approximation module. The main objective of the fuzzy expert system is to check the states of the system including the drum level and detect faults such as the feedwater flow sensor fault, feedwater flow control valve fault, and water wall bube rupture. The fuzzy expert system diagnoses faults using process values, manipulated values, and knowledge base which is built via interviews and questionaries with the experts on the plant operations. Finally, the validity of the developed fuzzy expert system is shown via experiments using the digital simulator for boiler system is Seoul Power Plant Unit 4.

• 플랜트 저널
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.39-44
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• 2015

본 연구는 석탄화력 탈황설비인 흡수탑 교반기용 유도전동기의 베어링 결함진단을 토대로 전류 스펙트럼 해석이 예측정비 수단으로서 활용할 수 있는지를 논하고자 하였다. 베어링의 교체 전과 후의 전류스펙트럼 해석을 하고 베어링을 육안 점검하여 비교 분석함으로써 실제 발전 산업현장에서 부하운전중인 유도전동기의 베어링의 결함진단을 하였다. 분석 결과, 볼과 외륜의 베어링 결함에 해당하는 주파수성분이 예측한 값으로 검출되었고 전압기준의 진폭크기로 환산하여 베어링 교체하기 전과 후를 비교하면 결함이 진행될 경우 볼 결함에서는 약 2.9배 증가되고 외륜 결함에서는 약 2.24배 증가 되었음을 확인할 수 있었다. 이 같은 결론으로 인위적인 고장요소에 의한 베어링 결함진단 뿐만 아니라 산업현장에서 부하 운전되고 있는 유도전동기의 베어링 결함을 사전에 예측하는데 있어서도 매우 유용하였다.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.48-53
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• 2017

We diagnosed the defect using the data obtained from the nuclear power plant simulator. In this paper, we diagnosed faults in the nuclear power plant system for discovery instead of the traditional single-component or device unit. We created the six fault scenarios and used a fault simulator to obtain the fault data. It was extracted pattern from acquired failure data. Neural network model was trained and simple pattern matching algorithm was applied. We presented a simulation result and confirmed that the applied algorithm works correctly.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.753-772
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• 2014

The paper presents functional modelling and its application for diagnosis in nuclear power plants. Functional modelling is defined and its relevance for coping with the complexity of diagnosis in large scale systems like nuclear plants is explained. The diagnosis task is analyzed and it is demonstrated that the levels of abstraction in models for diagnosis must reflect plant knowledge about goals and functions which is represented in functional modelling. Multilevel flow modelling (MFM), which is a method for functional modelling, is introduced briefly and illustrated with a cooling system example. The use of MFM for reasoning about causes and consequences is explained in detail and demonstrated using the reasoning tool, the MFMSuite. MFM applications in nuclear power systems are described by two examples: a PWR; and an FBR reactor. The PWR example show how MFM can be used to model and reason about operating modes. The FBR example illustrates how the modelling development effort can be managed by proper strategies including decomposition and reuse.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.958-962
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• 2003

We acquired data of injection molding machine in operation and stored the data in database. We acquired the data of injection molding machine for fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) continuously and estimated the fault results with a fuzzy algorithm. Many of FDD are applied to a huge system, nuclear power plant and a computer numerical control(CNC) machine for processing machinery. But, the research of FDD is rare in injection molding machine compare with computer numerical control machine. We appraise the accuracy of the FDD and the limit of the application to the injection molding machine. We construct the fault detection and diagnosis system based on fuzzy algorithm in the injection molding machine. Data of operating injection molding machine are acquired in order to improve the reliability of detection and diagnosis.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.107-118
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• 2003

원전 탈기기 저장탱크의 기하학적 구조 및 정상 상태에서의 입출력 흐름율을 고려하여 동적 제어 모델을 설정하고, 적응 추정기를 이용하여 수위 측정 센서의 고장 검출 및 진단 기법을 제안하였다. 영광 3, 4호기의 실제 운전 데이터를 적용하여 제안된 고장 검출 및 진단 기법의 성능을 평가하고 타당성을 검증하였다.