A fault detection and isolation technique for in-core flux detectors

6th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 746-754

  Ma, Jianping ^a   Jiang, Jin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fault detection and isolation; In core flux detector; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

CANDU REACTOR; CONTRIBUTION PLOTS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; FAULT DETECTION AND ISOLATION; FAULT DETECTION AND ISOLATION TECHNIQUES; IN-CORE; IN-CORE FLUX DETECTOR; PCA MODEL; PHYSICAL PROXIMITY; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

HEAVY WATER REACTORS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INSTRUMENTS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 77952041320     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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