Izvestiya vuzov. Yadernaya Energetika

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Analisys of safety system pump condition based on their testing results

3/22/2017 2017 - #01 Global safety, reliability and diagnostics of nuclear power installations

Leskin S.T. Slobodchuk V.I. Shelegov A.S. Kashin D.Yu.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2017.1.04

UDC: 621.039; 62-932.4

The method for analyzing the condition of emergency system pumps based on their periodical testing results is presented in the paper. The method and the algorithms are based on the presentation of the testing results in the space of the principal components. Such an approach enables one to show the pump condition in a convenient form. The parameter variation measured from the beginning of the test until the steady state condition is achieved, i.e. the dynamic section of the curve for each parameter, is used for the analysis.

Comparing the behavior curves of different technological parameters as a time function of a particular pump for different tests one can see that some sections of these curves do not change from test to test. This simply means that these sections are not informative relative to extraction of the information concerning the defect formation. These sections should be classified as some kind of «noise» and should be excluded as providing little information. On the contrary, the sections with abnormal behavior of technological parameters are more informative, and we take these sections for further analysis.

As a measure of the system uncertainty entropy H(X) is used. This new parameter is defined by the relationship where pi – is the probability of the i-th state of the system; N – is the total number of the states of the system.

The entropy enables us to describe the probabilistic spread in the measured data. The entropy has the maximum value if all the states of the system are equiprobable. We can use this feature of the entropy to choose the more informative time intervals of the dynamic behavior of the technological parameters. The smaller the entropy, the more probable certain states of the system are. So, the most informative are those time sections, which have the maximum entropy value, i.e. the time sections for which the maximum spread in the measured data is observed. Using this approach a matrix is constructed based on the time intervals with maximum entropy, the so-called matrix of informative criteria.

To describe the condition of the pump using the different technological parameters are measured in the course of the tests we have to normalize the values of the parameters to the root-mean-square deviations of the parameters. The normalized data are then used for the transformation of the original data matrix on the basis of the most informative criteria with a statistical method known as the Karhunen-Loeve transform, which is also known as a principal components method.

The approach is applied to processing the testing results of the emergency system pumps of the Kalinin NPP (Russia). Interesting results are obtained.

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Link for citing the article: Leskin S.T., Slobodchuk V.I., Shelegov A.S., Kashin D.Yu. Analisys of safety system pump condition based on their testing results. Izvestiya vuzov. Yadernaya Energetika. 2017, no. 1, pp. 42-50; DOI: https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2017.1.04 (in Russian).

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