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Operation and control [ LBNEN2004 ]


3.0 crédits ECTS   

Langue
d'enseignement:
Lieu de l'activité Louvain-la-Neuve
Ressources
en ligne

SCK.CEN REFERENCE PERSON
Peter Baeten: peter.baeten@sckcen.be

Préalables

PRE-ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE OR PREREQUISITES

  •  It is advised that this course is taken after the following ones, because a number of topics in these courses are assumed known to the student:
  • Nuclear Energy: introduction (must)
  • Introduction to Nuclear Physics (advised)
  • Nuclear Reactor Theory (advised)
  • Nuclear Thermal-hydraulics (advised)


REFERENCE BOOKS ON PREREQUISITE

  • See the recommended reference books for these courses
  • See also www.sckcen.be/bnen
  • Brochures and Info
  • Background books W. D'haeseleer
Thèmes abordés
  • Fuel burnup and the basic principles of core reloading
  • Variation of reactivity during a normal operating cycle of the reactor (burnup, moderator effect, Doppler effect, poisoning)
  • Power distributions, Xe effect, Xe oscillations
  • Operating modes, operating limits and protection diagram
  • Measurement systems and their specific problems in the nuclear reactor
  • Automatic control systems and their performance in transient and steady-state operation
  • Safety requirements and advanced safety features of NPP
  • An overview of the major Design Base Accidents, consequences and mitigation
  • Visit of a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)
  • Seminar on reload calculations: tools used and economic considerations
Acquis
d'apprentissage
  • To learn how to operate a nuclear reactor
  • To seek the safe limits of operation of a nuclear reactor
  • To study specific problems of measurement and control in nuclear reactors
  • To obtain knowledge on nuclear reactor safety under accidental conditions
    emphasis is on PWR technology

La contribution de cette UE au développement et à la maîtrise des compétences et acquis du (des) programme(s) est accessible à la fin de cette fiche, dans la partie « Programmes/formations proposant cette unité d’enseignement (UE) ».

Modes d'évaluation
des acquis des étudiants

Individual oral exam, closed book, no written preparation

Méthodes d'enseignement
  • 1 t.m. / 20 hours of lectures
  • Visit of a NPP
  • Two 1/2 day seminars on reload calculations
Bibliographie
  • See the recommended reference books for these courses
  • See also www.sckcen.be/bnen / Brochures and Info / Background books W. D'haeseleer
Autres infos

Walter VAN HOVE vanhovewa@ornl.gov
Professor at the Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent)
Principal Engineer at TEE - Tractebel Energy Engineering, Nuclear Engineering Department
Mechanical Engineer (UGent, 1976)
Post Graduate in Fluid Mechanics (VKI, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, 1985)
Doctor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (UGent, 1989)
Major assignment at TEE: Safety analysis of Nuclear Power Plants, thermal hydraulic analysis of fluid systems under normal and accidental conditions
Teaching duties in BNEN: Operation and Control
Other duties: member of the ERBVC - Externe Reactor BedrijfsVeiligheidsCommissie (External Reactor Safety Review Committee) of the Borssele Nuclear Power Plant (Netherlands).

Greet JANSSENS-MAENHOUT greet.maenhout@jrc.it

Professor at the Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent)

Researcher at the Joint Research Centre Ispra (Italy),

Burgerlijk ingenieur natuurkunde (UGent, 1993), Doktors der Ingenieurswissenschaften (Maschinenbau, University Karlsruhe, 1998)

Research field: Nuclear safety and safeguards: (a) numerical modelling and experimental investigation of two-phase flow with heat transfer, (b) description of interfacial effects in micro-fluid dynamics.

Teaching duties in BNEN: Operation and control

Other duties: member in the 'exzellenten Nachwuchsförderprogramm' of the Karlsruhe Research Centre, active member in the European Multiphase Sciences Institute.

Cycle et année
d'étude
> Master complémentaire en génie nucléaire
Faculté ou entité
en charge
> EPL


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