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Dynamics and Control of Nuclear Reactors

  • 1st Edition - October 5, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Thomas W. Kerlin, Belle R. Upadhyaya
  • Language: English

Dynamics and Control of Nuclear Reactors presents the latest knowledge and research in reactor dynamics, control and instrumentation; important factors in ensuring the safe and ec… Read more

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Dynamics and Control of Nuclear Reactors presents the latest knowledge and research in reactor dynamics, control and instrumentation; important factors in ensuring the safe and economic operation of nuclear power plants. This book provides current and future engineers with a single resource containing all relevant information, including detailed treatments on the modeling, simulation, operational features and dynamic characteristics of pressurized light-water reactors, boiling light-water reactors, pressurized heavy-water reactors and molten-salt reactors. It also provides pertinent, but less detailed information on small modular reactors, sodium fast reactors, and gas-cooled reactors.

Key features

  • Provides case studies and examples to demonstrate learning through problem solving, including an analysis of accidents at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi
  • Includes MATLAB codes to enable the reader to apply the knowledge gained to their own projects and research
  • Features examples and problems that illustrate the principles of dynamic analysis as well as the mathematical tools necessary to understand and apply the analysis

Publishers Note: Table 3.1 has been revised and will be included in future printings of the book with the following data:

Group Decay Constant, li (sec-1) Delayed Neutron Fraction (bi)
1 0.0124 0.000221
2 0.0305 0.001467
3 0.111 0.001313
4 0.301 0.002647
5 1.14 0.000771
6 3.01 0.000281
Total delayed neutron fraction: 0.0067

Readership

Nuclear engineers and engineering students, particularly those lacking an understanding of how to carry out reactor simulations and design control systems; system engineers and modellers; graduate students of nuclear engineering, especially those concerned with energy systems; researchers concerned with the simulation of new reactor designs and the development of electrical grid requirements

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Nuclear Reactor Designs

3. The Point Reactor Kinetics Equations

4. Solutions of The Point Reactor Kinetics Equations and Interpretation

5. Subcritical Operation

6. Fission Product Poisoning

7. Reactivity Feedbacks

8. Reactor Control

9. Space-Time Kinetics

10. Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics

11. Nuclear Reactor Safety

12. Pressurized Water Reactors

13. Boiling Water Reactors

14. Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors

15. Nuclear Plant Simulators

16. Nuclear Plant Instrumentation

Appendix
A. Generation Ii Reactor Parameters
B. Advanced Reactors
C. Basic Reactor Physics
D. Laplace Transforms and Transfer Functions
E. Frequency Response Analysis of Linear Systems
F. State Variable Models and Transient Analysis
G. Matlab And Simulink: A Brief Tutorial
H. Analytical Solution of The Point Reactor Kinetics Equations and The Prompt Jump Approximation
I. A Moving Boundary Model
J. Modeling and Simulation of a Pressurized Water Reactor
K. Modeling and Simulation of a Molten Salt Reactor

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 5, 2019
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Thomas W. Kerlin

Dr. Kerlin has more than 55 years of experience in teaching and research related to nuclear reactor dynamics, control, and testing. He has published extensively and is the author, co-author or contributor for five books on energy, reactor dynamics, and instrumentation. He has worked in both academia and industry. Dr. Kerlin has now retired as the Head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee

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Belle R. Upadhyaya

Dr. Upadhyaya has more than 40 years of experience in teaching and research related to nuclear reactor dynamics, control, instrumentation, monitoring, diagnostics and advanced reactors. He has published more than 350 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and book chapters. He is a Life Fellow of International Society of Automation, a Fellow of American Nuclear Society, a Fellow of International Society of Engineering Asset Management, and a Life Senior Member of Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers. Dr. Upadhyaya has now retired as a Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee

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