Applications of fault diagnosis in nuclear power plants: An introductory survey

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1150-1161

  Ma, Jianping ^a   Jiang, Jin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fault detection; Fault diagnosis; Nuclear plants

Indexed keywords

FAULT DETECTION; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; FAULTS DETECTION; FAULTS DIAGNOSIS; KEY SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR PLANT; NUCLEAR-POWER INDUSTRY; RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 77957364248     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20090630-4-es-2003.00189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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