Control system for a nuclear power producing unit
AssigneeThe Babcock & Wilcox Company
InventorOliver W. Durrant
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Abstract
A co-ordinated control system for a nuclear power producing unit having a pressurized water reactor, a plurality of once through steam generators through which the coolant from the reactor is circulated in parallel, and a turbine generator supplied steam from the steam generators for the production of electric power.
Claims15
In a control system for a nuclear power producing unit comprising a pressurized water reactor, a once-through steam generator provided with feedwater supply means, a turbine-generator supplied with steam from the steam generator and means maintaining a flow of pressurized water through the reactor and steam generator, the combination comprising;
- means generating a feed forward control signal proportional to the desired power output of the power producing unit, a second means for adjusting the reactor heat release, a third means for adjusting the rate of flow of feedwater to the steam generator, said second and third means solely responsive to and operated in parallel from said feed forward control signal whereby the reactor heat release and the rate of flow of feedwater to the steam generator are each maintained in a discrete functional relationship to said feed forward control signal.
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