Published February 1999 | Version v1
Journal article

A power control system for the rod drive coil of control element drive mechanism in pressurized water reactor

  • 1. Chungnam National University, Taejon (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Genitech Co., Ltd, Teajon (Korea, Republic of)

Description

In this paper, we propose a new type of power control system for the rod drive coil of the CEDM of the PWR NPP in order to supply more reliable DC power. The electrical modelling of the controlled rod drive coil was done by referring related documentations. The design of the proposed system is based on this electrical model satisfying the existing specification. A high power DC-DC converter scheme is adopted utilizing the SMPS technique in the design of the proposed system. In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed system, an experimental system with the capability of 3.2 K Watt was set up for a rod with four cores and some computer simulations and experimentations were carried out. The result shows a very similar tracking performance with that of the existing system to the driving command. As a result of this, the proposed method can be applied to the power control system for the rod drive coil of the CEDM of the PWR NPP. (Author). 8 refs., 1 tab., 10 figs

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of the Korean Nuclear Society
Journal Volume
31
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 1-8
ISSN
0372-7327