Level control in the steam generator of a nuclear power plant

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-69

  Kothare, Mayuresh V ^a,b   Mettler, Bernard ^c   Morari, Manfred ^a,c   Bendotti, Pascale ^a,d   Falinower, Clément Marc ^d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISSION REACTOR; INDUSTRIAL CONTROL; LINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; LINEAR PARAMETER VARYING SYSTEM;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; REACTOR SHUTDOWNS; STEAM GENERATORS; WATER LEVELS;

LEVEL CONTROL;

EID: 0033894376     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/87.817692     Document Type: Article

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