Design and reliability assessment of control systems for a nuclear-based hydrogen production plant with copper-chlorine thermochemical cycle

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 966-977

  Al Dabbagh, Ahmad W ^a   Lu, Lixuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Copper chlorine thermochemical cycle; Distributed control system; Hydrogen reactor; Reliability assessment

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROCESS; COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DETAILED DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS; FAULT-TREES; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION PLANT; HYDROGEN REACTORS; INSPECTION FREQUENCY; MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; THERMOCHEMICAL CU-CL CYCLE; THERMOCHEMICAL CYCLES;

CHLORINE; CONTROL THEORY; COPPER; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; GAS PRODUCERS; OXYGEN; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 75049083550     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.11.099     Document Type: Article

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