《Real time reactor noise diagnostics for the borssele(PWR) nuclear power plant》.pdfVIP

Progress in Nuclear Energy, Vol. 43, No. 1-4, pp. 137-143, 2003 Pergamon Availableonline at © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved Printed in Great Britain s ¢ ~ t N ¢ l ~ D ~ m l e v o 0149-1970/03/$ - see front matter /locate/pnucene doi: 10.1016/S0149-1970(03)00020-9 REAL TIME REACTOR NOISE DIAGNOSTICS FOR THE BORSSELE (PWR) NUCLEAR POWER PLANT B. BARUT~Ua, S. SEKERb, E. AYAZb, E. TURKCANb alnstitute for Nuclear Energy, Istanbul Technical University, ITU, bElectrical Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, ITU, 80626, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey ABSTRACT After the upgrade of Borssele NPP in 1997, core cycle 24, the power plant operated three years more with 91% availability. The authority of the power plant decided to enhance and upgrade the reactor trend monitoring and plant information recording system with higher frequencies than the plant data processing system (PPS) as well as installing a flexible and multiple-purpose reactor noise analysis system which may support the reactor maintenance group with on-line and off-line capabilities for several different signal processing applications. Two measuring and monitoring systems were built in 2001 and