Design of fractional-order NPID controller for the NPK model of advanced nuclear reactor

D Gupta, V Goyal, J Kumar - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Advanced heavy water reactor (AHWR) is a type of advanced nuclear reactor which is the
most efficient nuclear fission reactor for power generation due to the large thorium reserve …

Comparative performance analysis of fractional-order nonlinear PID controller for NPK model of nuclear reactor

HK Rawat, V Goyal, J Kumar - 2022 2nd International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nonlinear dynamics constitute a significant component in nuclear power plants. Nuclear
power plants must be controlled solely because of this feature to provide the demand power …

[HTML][HTML] Robustness of optimized FPID controller against uncertainty and disturbance by fractional nonlinear model for research nuclear reactor

N Zare, G Jahanfarnia, A Khorshidi, J Soltani - Nuclear Engineering and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, a fractional order proportional integral derivative (FOPID) controller is designed
to create the reference power trajectory and to conquer the uncertainties and external …

Robust FOPI controller design for power control of PHWR under step-back condition

SS Bhase, BM Patre - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents a stabilizing fractional-order proportional integral (FOPI) controller
design for the power control of a highly nonlinear Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) …

Fractional order PID controller for power control in perturbed pressurized heavy water reactor

R Lamba, SK Singla, S Sondhi - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents an interval fractional-order proportional integral derivative (INFOPID)
controller design for the power control of a highly nonlinear Pressurized Heavy Water …

Fractional order IMC-PID controller design for the pressurized heavy water reactor

S Sagar, S Kaur, S Sondhi - 2016 - IET
A pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) is a nuclear power reactor, that commonly uses
unenriched natural uranium as its fuel and heavy water as its coolant and moderator. The …

Nonlinear fractional sliding mode controller based on reduced order FNPK model for output power control of nuclear research reactors

NZ Davijani, G Jahanfarnia… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the most important issues with respect to nuclear reactors is power control. In this
study, we designed a fractional-order sliding mode controller based on a nonlinear fractional …

Reduced order model based optimally tuned fractional order PID controller for pressurized water nuclear reactor

M Santhiya, A Abraham, N Pappa, M Chitra - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, the reduced model of the Pressurized Water Nuclear Reactor (PWR) is derived
based on the point kinetics equations and thermal equilibrium relations. The power level of …

Power Level Control of Nuclear Power Plants during Load Following Operation Using Fractional Order Controller Based on a Modified Algorithm

TA Boghdady, M Mahmoud, EA Zahab… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nuclear power can play an important role to achieve a secure clean energy transition.
Output power control is considered an important issue with respect to nuclear power plants …

Reduced order model based FOPID controller design for power control in Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor with specific gain–phase margin

R Lamba, S Sondhi, SK Singla - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The substantial portion of the existing power generation comes from Pressurized Heavy
Water Reactor (PHWR). However, PHWR is a nonlinear and high order system and …