Emulated Control System for a Nuclear Reactor

Abstract

This paper discusses some of the instrumentation aspects of process control system developed for a nuclear power plant. Monitoring and controlling are the essential elements in the normal, abnormal and emergency operation of nuclear power plant. Through their sensors and transmitters, control systems measure process variables and inturn to control valves, motors and other electromechanical equipments of the nuclear plant. In this context, we have developed a Labview based such control system aimed at developing a real time system to deploy via IoT(Internet of Things). We represent here our conceptual design developed in Labview platform integrated with Arduino Uno microcontroller. The instrumentation and control system measures basic physical parameters like level, temperature and pressure using sensors. The monitoring and control of the temperature is done using virtual instrument software LabView, which acts as data acquisition module. It monitors performance and helps in controlling the nuclear plant operations to keep the process variables within the plant design limits and ensures the plant safety. The transmission of data from one end to another end is done through wireless technology ZigBee, to monitor and analyzeplant processes and equipment on the Labview platform.