2.

2 Operation and Maintenance Support

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 2.2 Operation and Maintenance Support

Motivation
The use of advanced digital systems and technologies will
continue to supply an ever-increasing number of measurements
that will provide extensive datasets from which information can
be extracted.

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 2.2 Operation and Maintenance Support

Objective
Improve methods and techniques for improved plant supervision
and diagnostics to support operational and maintenance
decisions.

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 2.2 Operation and Maintenance Support

2.2.1 Performance monitoring models

2.2.2 Diagnostic decision support
2.2.3 Condition-based maintenance
2.2.4 Computerised Procedure support

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 2.2.1

PERFORMANCE MONITORING
MODELS

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 Objectives
• Develop and implement techniques for online process
monitoring
• Based on a combination of physical and data driven modelling
techniques
• Enhance capabilities
• Guidelines on how to introduce these at the utilities while ensuring
continued safe operation

• Improved accuracy and decreased uncertainties

• Insight in the actual plant performance
• Operate closer to the safety limits
• Better plant economics and safety

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 Work plan
• Identify where the combination of physical and empirical
modelling is most beneficial
• With a focus on NPP’s needs
• Study suitable data driven model structures
• Finding a viable balance between the approaches
• Retain benefits from both approaches

• Explore model identification, verification, and validation

techniques
• For combined physical and empirical models

• Related programme activity

• Next-Generation Outage Control Centres (1.4.1)

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 Expected results
• Higher accuracies and decreased uncertainties in process
performance monitoring

• Guidelines for combining physical and data driven modelling

approaches for efficient process performance monitoring

• Verification and validation processes for physical and empirical

model improvement
• Satisfying NPP’s needs from business, technical, and regulatory
perspectives.

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 2.2.2

DIAGNOSTIC DECISION SUPPORT

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 Objectives
• Develop an automated system for diagnosis and prognosis of
detected process anomalies
• Decision support and supervision for control room operator(s)

• Functional representation of processes, together with the control

systems
• Different operation and control modes

• Develop supporting tools

• Facilitate with applicability and interpretation
• Process experts, operation and maintenance personnel

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 Work plan
• Continue the development and application of a diagnosis and
prognosis system
• Based on Multi-level Flow Modelling – MFM
• Facilitate root cause and consequence analysis
• Integration with HAMMLAB simulators

• Development based on continued good collaboration with

Danish Technical University (DTU)

• Related programme activity

• “Future Interfaces and Human-Automation Teams” (1.5.1)

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 Expected results
• Automated system for performing diagnosis and prognosis of
detected process anomalies

• Applications for decision support and supervision to control

room operator(s)

• Integration of the system with HAMMLAB simulators

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 2.2.3

CONDITION-BASED MAINTENANCE

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 Objectives
• Support transition to condition-based maintenance (CBM)

• Estimate Remaining Useful Life (RUL) for process equipment

• Compute an aggregated lifetime distribution
• Based on data from different sources
• Support maintenance decisions (safety and economical)

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 Work plan
• Develop general methodology
• Assessing the equipment health state
• Based on technical condition, operational history and design quality
and reliability
• Emphasis on confidence levels
• Application of CBM methods in the nuclear domain

• Investigate Big Data technology

• Volume, Variety and Veracity
• Find insights in new and emerging types of data
• Look at benefits for data management in CBM

• Related programme activity

• Next-generation Outage Control Centres (1.4.1)

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 Expected results
• Methods for CBM based on health assessment
• Visual inspections, sensor data and various data processing
techniques

• Evaluation of CBM methodology in nuclear industry

• Lifetime expectancy of equipment

• Assessment of Big Data technology

• With respect to data management for CBM

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 2.2.4

COMPUTERISED PROCEDURE
SUPPORT

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 Objectives
• Deploy traditional computerised procedure technology in a
distributed manner
• Exploiting a high degree of portability

• Develop recommendations on the use of this technology in

these new ways

• Asserting good usability of the technical implementation

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 Work plan
• Continued technical implementation of computerized procedures
solutions
• Just-in-time assessment of procedures
• Procedures for coordination of the activities between the main
control room and the field operators
• Co-operation with topic:
Control Room Design and Evaluation (1.3)

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 Work plan
• Programme activities for distributed procedural support:

• Ubiquitous Computation to Support Decommissioning (1.6.2)

• Design and Evaluation of Support Systems for Field Workers

(1.4.2)

• Future Operational Concept (1.5)

• Distributed system solutions in future operational concepts

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 Expected results
• Evaluation of the potential benefits of distributed computerised
procedures
• Array of possible application areas

• Human factors recommendation on the use of distributed

computerised procedure technology

• Evaluation of the use of just-in-time assessment of procedures

• Implication on situation awareness.

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 2.2 Operation and Maintenance Support

2.2.1 Performance monitoring models

2.2.2 Diagnostic decision support
2.2.3 Condition-based maintenance
2.2.4 Computerised Procedure support

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