A modeling and simulation approach for a pyroprocess facility design

This paper provides insights about how a discrete event system modeling and simulation can be applied to a nuclear facility operation analysis. SimEvents and Stateflow in Mathworks Inc. were used for a headend process operation modeling and simulation to demonstrate a concrete DES modeling and simulation procedure. In particular, representative DES simulation results were also presented to demonstrate the analysis function such as a queuing, a stochastic analysis and a part of a reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) analysis. These kinds of modeling and simulation are very important because they can contribute to a facility design in terms of an optimal process, an equipment layout, an efficient operation scheduling and a generic understanding for regulators, stake holders and operators and furthermore they can contribute to estimate an operational and maintenance cost. In the near future, a DES modeling and simulation technique is expected to contribute to a design study of the Korean pyroprocess facility design before its construction as well as an operation scheduling, annual throughput estimation and operating cost estimates