Methods for comparative assessment of active and passive safety systems with respect to reliability, uncertainty, economy, and flexibility
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2008.
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| author | Oh, Jiyong |
| author2 | Michael W. Golay. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/447822019-04-10T15:48:37Z Methods for comparative assessment of active and passive safety systems with respect to reliability, uncertainty, economy, and flexibility Oh, Jiyong Michael W. Golay. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering. Nuclear Science and Engineering. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Passive cooling systems sometimes use natural circulation, and they are not dependent on emergency AC power or offsite power, which can make designs simpler through the reduction of emergency power supplying infrastructure. The passive system approach can lead to substantial simplification of the system as well as overall economic benefits, and passive systems are believed to be less vulnerable to accidents by component failures and human errors compared to active systems. The viewpoint that passive system design is more reliable and more economical than active system design has become generally accepted. However, passive systems have characteristics of a high level of uncertainty and low driving force for purposes of heat removal phenomena. These characteristics of passive systems can result in increasing system unreliability and may raise potential remedial costs during a system's lifetime. This study presents a comprehensive comparison of reliability and cost taking into account uncertainties and introduces the concept of flexibility using the example of active and passive residual heat removal systems in a PWR. The results show that the active system can have, for this particular application, greater reliability than the passive system. Because the passive system is economically optimized, its heat removal capacity is much smaller than that of the active system. Thus, functional failure probability of the passive system has a greater impact on overall system reliability than the active system. Moreover, considering the implications of flexibility upon remedial costs, the active system may more economical than the passive system because the active system has flexible design features for purposes of increasing heat removal capacity. by Jiyong Oh. Ph.D. 2009-03-16T19:42:18Z 2009-03-16T19:42:18Z 2008 2008 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44782 300300707 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 184 leaves application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Nuclear Science and Engineering. Oh, Jiyong Methods for comparative assessment of active and passive safety systems with respect to reliability, uncertainty, economy, and flexibility |
| title | Methods for comparative assessment of active and passive safety systems with respect to reliability, uncertainty, economy, and flexibility |
| title_full | Methods for comparative assessment of active and passive safety systems with respect to reliability, uncertainty, economy, and flexibility |
| title_fullStr | Methods for comparative assessment of active and passive safety systems with respect to reliability, uncertainty, economy, and flexibility |
| title_full_unstemmed | Methods for comparative assessment of active and passive safety systems with respect to reliability, uncertainty, economy, and flexibility |
| title_short | Methods for comparative assessment of active and passive safety systems with respect to reliability, uncertainty, economy, and flexibility |
| title_sort | methods for comparative assessment of active and passive safety systems with respect to reliability uncertainty economy and flexibility |
| topic | Nuclear Science and Engineering. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44782 |
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