Fault Detection and Diagnosis of the Deaerator System in Nuclear Power Plants

In this paper, dynamic control model is formulated by considering the geometrical structure of the deaerator storage tank in nuclear power plant and input-output flow rate at steady state, and we describe fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) scheme based on the adaptive estimator. The performance and effectiveness of the proposed FDD scheme are evaluated by applying real operating data obtained from the YOUNGKWANG 3 & 4 FSAR.