Robust nonlinear model predictive control for nuclear power plants in load following operations with bounded xenon oscillations

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 241, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 533-543

  Eliasi, H ^a   Menhaj, M B ^a   Davilu, H ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABLE LIMIT; AXIAL POWER DISTRIBUTION; LOAD-FOLLOWING; LOAD-FOLLOWING OPERATION; MIN-MAX OPTIMIZATION; NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; SIMULATION RESULT; STATE CONSTRAINTS; XENON OSCILLATIONS;

CONTROLLERS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

XENON;

EID: 79251602202     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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