A hybrid approach for detecting and isolating faults in nuclear power plant interacting systems

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 342-357

  Hines, J Wesley ^a,b,c,d,e   Miller, Don W ^a   Hajek, Brian K ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical redundancy; Fault detection; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BOILING WATER REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PERFORMANCE; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY;

FAULT DETECTION; FAULT DETECTION AND ISOLATION SYSTEMS; HYBRID DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM; INTERACTING SYSTEMS; PATTERN MATCHING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0030244254     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/nt96-a15844     Document Type: Article

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