Section: Contracts and Grants with Industry

EDF Approdyn

Participants : Benoîte de Saporta, François Dufour, Huilong Zhang.

The objective of this project is develop new methodologies for studying the dynamic reliability of controlled systems used in the critical area of power generation and process industries. We work on a benchmark of steam generator with four physical processes: feedwater flowrate , steam flow, narrow range water level and wide range water level. A PID controller is used to maintain the water level within limits of set-points. The system is composed of seven components: 1 passive system representing vapor transport system, 3 extraction pumps, 2 feeding turbopumps, and 1 waterflow regulation valve. This work was presented as a poster at the 3SGS GIS workshop in Valenciennes in 2011.