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Author : David Joseph Kropaczek
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Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (217 download)
Download or read book In-core Nuclear Fuel Management Optimization Utilizing Simulated Annealing written by David Joseph Kropaczek and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffery Lewins
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306470888
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Advances in Nuclear Science and Technology written by Jeffery Lewins and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its initiation in 1962, this series has presented authoritative reviews of the most important developments in nuclear science and engineering, from both theoretical and applied perspectives. In addition, many original contributions are included.
Author : Dan Gabriel Cacuci
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387981306
Total Pages : 3701 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Nuclear Engineering written by Dan Gabriel Cacuci and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 3701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an authoritative compilation of information regarding methods and data used in all phases of nuclear engineering. Addressing nuclear engineers and scientists at all levels, this book provides a condensed reference on nuclear engineering since 1958.
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Publisher : Thomas Telford
ISBN 13 : 9780727720337
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Fuel Management and Handling written by and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 1995 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers advances in nuclear fuel handling and fuel management and assesses their impact in increasing reactor availability
Author : P. Engrand
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Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Multi-objective Optimization Approach Based on Simulated Annealing and Its Application to Nuclear Fuel Management written by P. Engrand and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rene V.V. Vidal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642467873
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Applied Simulated Annealing written by Rene V.V. Vidal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1992, I defended my doctoral thesis: Engineering Optimiza tion - selected contributions (IMSOR, The Technical University of Den mark, 1992, p. 92). This dissertation presents retrospectively my central contributions to the theoretical and applied aspects of optimization. When I had finished my thesis I became interested in editing a volume related to a new expanding area of applied optimization. I considered several approaches: simulated annealing, tabu search, genetic algorithms, neural networks, heuristics, expert systems, generalized multipliers, etc. Finally, I decided to edit a volume related to simulated annealing. My main three reasons for this choice were the following: (i) During the last four years my colleagues at IMSOR and I have car ried out several applied projects where simulated annealing was an essential. element in the problem-solving process. Most of the avail able reports and papers have been written in Danish. After a short review I was convinced that most of these works deserved to be pub lished for a wider audience. (ii) After the first reported applications of simulated annealing (1983- 1985), a tremendous amount of theoretical and applied work have been published within many different disciplines. Thus, I believe that simulated annealing is an approach that deserves to be in the curricula of, e.g. Engineering, Physics, Operations Research, Math ematical Programming, Economics, System Sciences, etc. (iii) A contact to an international network of well-known researchers showed that several individuals were willing to contribute to such a volume.
Author : Gustavo Mendes Platt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331996433X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Inverse Problems with Applications in Engineering written by Gustavo Mendes Platt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on metaheuristic methods and its applications to real-world problems in Engineering. The first part describes some key metaheuristic methods, such as Bat Algorithms, Particle Swarm Optimization, Differential Evolution, and Particle Collision Algorithms. Improved versions of these methods and strategies for parameter tuning are also presented, both of which are essential for the practical use of these important computational tools. The second part then applies metaheuristics to problems, mainly in Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, and Nuclear Engineering. Other methods, such as the Flower Pollination Algorithm, Symbiotic Organisms Search, Cross-Entropy Algorithm, Artificial Bee Colonies, Population-Based Incremental Learning, Cuckoo Search, and Genetic Algorithms, are also presented. The book is rounded out by recently developed strategies, or hybrid improved versions of existing methods, such as the Lightning Optimization Algorithm, Differential Evolution with Particle Collisions, and Ant Colony Optimization with Dispersion – state-of-the-art approaches for the application of computational intelligence to engineering problems. The wide variety of methods and applications, as well as the original results to problems of practical engineering interest, represent the primary differentiation and distinctive quality of this book. Furthermore, it gathers contributions by authors from four countries – some of which are the original proponents of the methods presented – and 18 research centers around the globe.
Author : Tong Guo
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Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Within-lattice Nuclear Fuel Assembly Loading Optimization by Simulated Annealing written by Tong Guo and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents the development of an optimization engine applicable to light water reactor (LWR) fuel assembly loading design. The optimization technique employed is the simulated annealing (SA) algorithm, while the evaluation of design objectives and constraints is handled by coupling to the lattice-physics code CPM-2. The optimization control variables include the "pin-by-pin" placement and/or loading of nuclear fuel, burnable absorbers, or other material regions within a fuel assembly (e.g. water holes, guide tubes, etc.). Also, the designer can "freeze" any given region during the optimization, both in terms of location and/or composition. The objective functions presently available include the minimization of 235U enrichment or the minimization of pin power peaking, both of which can act as constraints to one another (via penalty-based or hard constraints).
Download or read book Boiling Water Reactor In-Core Fuel Management Through Parallel Simulated Annealing in FORMOSA-B. written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commercial nuclear power plant with a boiling water reactor will utilize between 368 and 800+ individual fuel assemblies to generate steam for 18 to 24 months between refueling outages. The composition and reactivity of each fuel assembly will vary due to variations in initial enrichment, burnable poison loading and irradiation conditions in the core. These variations pose a challenge to the engineers who must design subsequent reloads because only one quarter to one half of the fuel will be replaced at a time. One of the challenges is to determine the optimum layout of the fuel within the core in order to get the highest value from the fuel without violating any safety or operational limits. The FORMOSA-B program was developed to automatically find a family of optimum loading patterns by combining a robust, accurate 3-D core simulator with a simulated annealing loading pattern search. Other features have been added to allow the program to rapidly compute shutdown margins and optimize control rod programming through the application of heuristic rules. One drawback of the FORMOSA-B program is that long run-times, sometimes exceeding a week, are required to generate and evaluate the large numbers of solutions required by the simulated annealing algorithm. The rising popularity and availability of parallel computing and computational clusters provides a possible solution to the problem of long run-times. To this end, a parallel simulated annealing capability has been developed for the FORMOSA-B program. The parallel simulated annealing driver utilizes standardized Message Passing Interface routines to divide the individual Markov search chains of the simulated annealing algorithm among a large number of processors. By evaluating multiple loading patterns concurrently, run times are significantly reduced. In testing with a 368-assembly BWR/4 model, parallel speedup factors exceeding 32 were observed with 48 processors. Parallel efficiencies are calculated to be in the.
Author : Joseph Patrick Kearney
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Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Simulation and Optimization Techniques of Nuclear In-core Fuel Management Decisions written by Joseph Patrick Kearney and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Da Ruan
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812774114
Total Pages : 1019 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Applied Artificial Intelligence written by Da Ruan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FLINS, originally an acronym for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science, is now extended to Applied Artificial Intelligence for Applied Research. The contributions to the seventh in the series of FLINS conferences contained in this volume cover state-of-the-art research and development in applied artificial intelligence for applied research in general and for power/nuclear engineering in particular. Contents: Learning Techniques in Service Robotic Environment (Z Z Bien et al.); The Role of Soft Computing in Applied Sciences (P P Wang); New Operators for Context Adaptation of Mamdani Fuzzy Systems (A Botta et al.); Lukasiewicz Algebra Model of Linguistic Values of Truth and Their Reasoning (L Yi et al.); Annihilator and Alpha-Subset (X Q Long et al.); On PCA Error of Subject Classification (L H Feng et al.); Knowledge Discovery for Customer Classification on the Principle of Maximum Profit (C Zeng et al.); Fuzzy Multi-Objective Interactive Goal Programming Approach to Aggregate Production Planning (T Ertay); Analysing Success Criteria for ICT Projects (K Milis & K Vanhoof); Prioritization of Relational Capital Measurement Indicators Using Fuzzy AHP (A Beskese & F T Bozbura); Risk Analysis and Management of Urban Rainstorm Water Logging in Tianjin (S Han et al.); Obstacle Avoidance Learning for Biomimetic Robot Fish (Z Shen et al.); Urban Signal Control Using Intelligent Agents (M A Alipour & S Jalili); Parallel Evolutionary Methods Applied to a PWR Core Reload Pattern Optimization (R Schirru et al.); and other papers. Readership: Graduate students, researchers and industrialists in AI, applied mathematics, computer science and engineering, electrical & electronic engineering, and nuclear/power engineering.
Author : Pavel Tsvetkov
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9533071109
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Power written by Pavel Tsvetkov and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of the twenty first century is an energy consuming society. Due to increasing population and living standards, each year the world requires more energy and new efficient systems for delivering it. Furthermore, the new systems must be inherently safe and environmentally benign. These realities of today's world are among the reasons that lead to serious interest in deploying nuclear power as a sustainable energy source. Today's nuclear reactors are safe and highly efficient energy systems that offer electricity and a multitude of co-generation energy products ranging from potable water to heat for industrial applications. The goal of the book is to show the current state-of-the-art in the covered technical areas as well as to demonstrate how general engineering principles and methods can be applied to nuclear power systems.
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Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Advances in Nuclear Fuel Management II written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gustavo Alonso
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0128200219
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Desalination in Nuclear Power Plants written by Gustavo Alonso and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desalination in Nuclear Power Plants presents the latest research on a variety of nuclear desalination techniques for different nuclear reactor systems; it includes also several aspects regarding competitiveness, sustainability, safety, and licensing process. Authors Alonso, del Valle, and Ramirez explore the possibilities of the cogeneration of water and electricity using a nuclear reactor. This book consolidates the latest research to provide readers with a clear understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of the thermal, membrane, and hybrid desalination processes, along with a comprehensive methodology to guide the reader on how to perform levelized cost analyses for water and electricity. The conditions for the coupling of nuclear reactors and desalination plants are presented, and techniques to maximize water and energy production and to reduce their corresponding costs are provided. Mathematical modeling techniques for different components of the power plant are also included based on mass and energy state equations, as well as different steam currents alternatives for coupling along with a proposed method for their evaluation. Explains nuclear cogeneration in the context of multiobjective optimized methods and their application in the design of a cogeneration system of water and electricity Explores principles to optimize the cogeneration process from an economic and thermal perspective (exergoeconomic analysis) Includes competitiveness, sustainability, safety, and licensing of the nuclear desalination system
Download or read book Development and Utilization of Mathematical Optimization in Advanced Fuel Cycle Systems Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past sixty years, a wide variety of nuclear power technologies have been theorized, investigated and tested to various degrees. These technologies, if properly applied, could provide a stable, long-term, economical source of CO2-free electric power. However, the recycling of nuclear fuel introduces a degree of coupling between reactor systems which must be accounted for when making long term strategic plans. This work investigates the use of a simulated annealing optimization algorithm coupled together with the VISION fuel cycle simulation model in order to identify attractive strategies from economic, evironmental, non-proliferation and waste-disposal perspectives, which each have associated an objective function. The simulated annealing optimization algorithm works by perturbing the fraction of new reactor capacity allocated to each available reactor type (using a set of heuristic rules) then evaluating the resulting deployment scenario outcomes using the VISION model and the chosen objective functions. These new scenarios, which are either accepted or rejected according the the Metropolis Criterion, are then used as the basis for further perturbations. By repeating this process several thousand times, a family of near-optimal solutions are obtained. Preliminary results from this work using a two-step, Once-through LWR to Full-recycle/FRburner deployment scenario with exponentially increasing electric demand indicate that the algorithm is capable of nding reactor deployment pro les that reduce the long-term-heat waste disposal burden relative to an initial reference scenario. Further work is under way to re ne the current results and to extend them to include the other objective functions and to examine the optimization trade-o s that exist between these di erent objectives.
Author : Timothy James Rogers
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Pwr Fuel Assembly Optimization Using Adaptive Simulated Annealing Coupled with Translat written by Timothy James Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimization methods have been developed and refined throughout many scientific fields of study. This work utilizes one such developed technique of optimization called simulated annealing to produce optimal operation parameters for a 15x15 fuel assembly to be used in an operating nuclear power reactor. The two main cases of optimization are: one that finds the optimal 235U enrichment layout of the fuel pins in the assembly and another that finds both the optimal 235U enrichments where gadolinium burnable absorber pins are also inserted. Both of these optimizations can be performed by coupling Adaptive Simulated Annealing to TransLAT which successfully searches the optimization space for a fuel assembly layout that produces the minimized pin power peaking factor. Within given time constraints this package produces optimal layouts within a given set of assumptions and constraints. Each layout is forced to maintain the fuel assembly average 235U enrichment as a constraint. Reductions in peaking factors that are produced through this method are on the order of 2% to 3% when compared to the baseline results. As with any simulated annealing approach, families of optimal layouts are produced that can be used at the engineer0́9s discretion.
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Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the AI91 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
