Penn State Centre for Nuclear Reactor
and Power Plant I&C/HMI, CNRPPC
We would like your feedback
and suggestions on this "proposed" centre.
The center's founding faculty:
- Robert M. Edwards
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, MNE),
- Mac E. Bryan (RSEC)
- Kostadin Ivanof (MNE)
- Kwang Y. Lee (EE), and
- Michael D. Lukas (EE)
Membership Requirments
for the CNRPPC
CURRENT or PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS:
- Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas, with
special interest in BWR stability monitoring
- Public Service Electric and Gas, with speical interest
in fossil power plant simulation, simulators and control.
- Frammatome Technologies, with special interest in
fossil and nuclear power plant simulation and simulators.
CURRENT or PROPOSED PROJECTS
PAST PROJECTS
- Experimental
Development of Power Reactor Intelligent Control,"
National Science Foundation/Electric Power Research Institute.
- Research
and Curriculum Development for Power Plant Intelligent Control,
National Science Foundation.
- Modeling and Control for
Sodium Process Facility, Argonne National Laboratory,
February 1997.
- A Best-Estimate Reactor
Core Monitor Using State Feedback Strategies To Resolve Uncertainties,
A Ph.D. Dissertation in Nuclear Engineering by Robert P. Martin,
December 1996.
- On-Line Adaptive Robust
Control And Model Uncertainty Validation For A Nuclear Power
Plant Abstract A Ph.D. Dissertation in Nuclear Engineering
by Michael A. Power, December 1996.
- May 5 and 10, 1996 Advanced
Monitoring and Control for Nuclear Reactors Workshops: held
in conjunction with the The 1996 American Nuclear Society International
Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and
Human Machine Interface Technologies, NPIC&HMIT'96,
An historic meeting May 6-9, 1996, The Nittany Lion Inn,
The Pennsylvania StateUniversity, USA