Simulate operations of Pressurised Water Reactor and attached Steam Turbine for Power Generation.
This simulation represents a rather basic model of a 3500MW(thermal) Pressurised Water Nuclear Reactor and associated Steam Turbine for power generation.
It is still very much a work in progress but currently can simulate operation of a PWR reactor from mode 5 condition (cold shut down) until mode 1 (power operations) and then up to full load. Some of the areas/items already implemented include;
- 4-loop PWR reactor
- Pressuriser with heater and spray controllers
- Reactor Source/Intermediate/Power range flux meters
- Chemical and Volume Control system (CVCS) with borating/dilution control
- Estimation of criticality
- Effects of all components +/- of reactivity (although still working to get the negative reactivity effects of Iodine/Xenon accurate)
- 4 x Steam Generators
- Emergency Cooling Water system, with cold leg accumulator, LP/HP Emergency cooling pumps and containment spray pumps
- Alarm/Event, Trip/SCRAM and Runback systems
- simplified Condensate and Feedwater Systems
- simplified Main Cooling Water, Service Water and Closed Cooling Water systems
- simulation of various faults (Fallen rod, Ejected rod, Turbine trip, RCP trip and Runback, LOCA (Loss of Collant Accident)
Please find some current screenshots below.
The following is my to-do list;
- complete operations manual
- tidy up each screen and add trending where appropriate
- standardise KKS plant coding for all equipment
- improve Iodine/Xenon negative effect on reactivity modelling
- add further faults that may be experienced into the simulation
Please find videos of simulator operation below - first is reactor startup from cold until full load, and second is reactor response to a large break loss of coolant accident.
