Evaluation of a rankine cycle display for nuclear power plant monitoring and diagnosis

Human Factors

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 506-521

  Vicente, Kim J ^a,e   Moray, Neville ^b,f   Lee, John D ^c,e   Rasmussen, Jens ^d,g   Jones, Barclay G ^e,h   Brock, Richard ^e,i   Djemil, Toufik ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE VALENCIENNES   (France)

^c BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HURECON   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^h University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

ⁱ BABCOCK AND WILCOX COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESSURE TEMPERATURE GRAPH; RANKINE CYCLE DISPLAY; SINGLE SENSOR SINGLE INDICATOR DISPLAY;

CONTROL ROOMS (POWER PLANTS); MONITORING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RANKINE CYCLE;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

ARTICLE; CONTROL SYSTEM; DISPLAY SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONITORING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT;

EID: 0030250052     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872096778702033     Document Type: Article

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