This work focuses on runaway behaviour of industrial catalytic tube-reactor and presents how decision trees can be used for forecasting the runaway. The steady-state simulator of the reactor and runaway criterion based on Ljapunov’s indirect stability analysis have been used to generate the database used by the decision tree induction algorithm. The extracted logical rules can be used in an ope...

Exergy analysis and response surface methodology (RSM) is applied to reduce the exergy loss and improve energy and exergy efficiency of acetic acid production plant. Exergy analysis is run as a thermodynamic tool to assess exergy loss in reactor and towers of acetic acid production process. The process is simulated in Aspen Plus(v.8.4) simulator and the necessary thermodynamics data for calcula...

This report analyzes the technical aspects and the economics of utilizing nuclear reactor to provide the energy needed for a Canadian oil sands extraction facility using SteamAssisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) technology. The energy from the nuclear reactor would replace the need for energy supplied by natural gas, which is currently burned at these facilities. There are a number of concerns surr...

Nuclear power plants in the United States are increasingly challenged to compete wholesale electricity markets due low costs and dynamic grid conditions from competing generation sources. An alternative market for nuclear is industrial facilities that can use thermal and/or electrical generated by a plant offset economic losses incurred challenges. A generic pressurized water reactor (PWR) simu...

In nuclear power plants (NPPs), digital I&C systems are expected to lead to increasing level of safety and improved performance in communication, maintenance, and signal processing. They are expected to be used in all new NPP designs, while existing NPPs are being evaluated for the switch from analog to digital control systems. Switching from analog to digital or working with hybrid systems has...

exergy analysis and response surface methodology (rsm) is applied to reduce the exergy loss and improve energy and exergy efficiency of acetic acid production plant. exergy analysis is run as a thermodynamic tool to assess exergy loss in reactor and towers of acetic acid production process. the process is simulated in aspen plus(v.8.4) simulator and the necessary thermodynamics data for calcula...