Preliminary Development of Online Remote Multipurpose Reactor Monitoring System

RSG-GAS is the largest research reactor owned by Indonesia which has been operating for 31 years since August 18, 1987. RSG-GAS has employed the Simatic S7-400 Siemens PLC. However, the PLC system has not been optimized for remote online monitoring reactor purposes. Therefore this paper aims to design a wireless reactor monitoring system using LabVIEW. LabVIEW software is selected due to the flexibility and reliability for the software and hardware integration. Monitoring is carried out for the parameters of temperature, pressure and flow rate. The research covers the design interface on LabVIEW, wireless communication analysis, the verification process and validation of the monitoring system. The results obtained from this study are monitoring systems of RSG-GAS process diagram, verification of data communication and the analysis of the correctness the received data. The full paper will show that the RSG-GAS monitoring system using LabVIEW can applied in the RSG-GAS monitoring system. (paper)