Nuclear power plant transient diagnostics using transfer functions as estimators

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 118-136

  Šalamun, Igor ^a   Stritar, Andrej ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Fault diagnosis; Pattern recognition; Transient identification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TRANSIENTS;

FAULT DIAGNOSIS; TRANSIENT IDENTIFICATION;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 0032205446     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/nt98-a2913     Document Type: Article

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