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Abstract
The diagnosis of loss of coolant accidents (LOCA) in nuclear reactors has attracted a great deal of attention in condition monitoring of nuclear power plants (NPPs) because the health of cooling system is crucial to the stability of the nuclear reactor. Multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural networks have commonly been applied to LOCA diagnosis. The data used for training these models consists of a number of time-series data sets, each for a different break size, with the transient behavior of different measurable variables in the coolant system of the reactor following a LOCA. It is important to select a suitable architecture for the neural network that delivers robust results, in that the predicted break size is deemed to be accurate even for a break size that is not included in the training data sets. The objective of this paper is to present a simple method for measuring the robustness of diagnostic models for predicting the break size during the loss of coolant accidents. A robustness metric is proposed based on the leave-one-out approach and the mean squared error resulting from a diagnostics model. Using this metric it becomes possible to compare the robustness of different diagnostic models. Given data obtained from a high fidelity simulation of the coolant system of a nuclear reactor, four different diagnostic models are obtained and their properties compared and discussed. These models include a fully connected multi-layer perceptron with one hidden layer, a fully connected multi-layer perceptron with two hidden layers, a multi-layer perceptron with one hidden layer that is pruned using the optimal brain surgeon algorithm, a group method of data handling (GMDH) neural network, and an adaptive network based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS).
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2017 |
Place of Publication | Tampa, Floria, US |
Publisher | Prognostics and Health Management Society |
Number of pages | 9 |
Volume | 8 |
Publication status | Published - 5 Oct 2017 |
Event | Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2017 - St. Petersburg, United States Duration: 2 Oct 2017 → 5 Oct 2017 https://www.phmsociety.org/events/conference/phm/17 |
Conference
Conference | Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2017 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | St. Petersburg |
Period | 2/10/17 → 5/10/17 |
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Keywords
- RCUK
- EPSRC
- EP/M018709/1
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Smart Online Monitoring for Nuclear Power Plants (SMART)
Becerra, V. & Bausch, N.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
23/06/15 → 22/05/18
Project: Research