Browsing Faculty of Engineering by Author "Cilliers, A.C."
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Benchmarking an expert fault detection and diagnostic system on the Three Mile Island accident event sequence
Cilliers, A.C. (Elsevier, 2013)Early fault identification systems enable detecting and diagnosing early onset faults or fault causes which allow maintenance planning on the equipment showing signs of deterioration or failure. This includes valve and ... -
Fault detection and characterisation in pressurised water reactors using real-time simulations
Cilliers, A.C.; Nicholls, D.; Helberg, A.S.J. (Elsevier, 2011)The use of real-time plant simulators running in parallel with a nuclear plant to predict the control system behaviour and highlighting unexpected plant behaviour is presented. The study is performed on a 910 MW Generation ... -
Preliminary economic evaluation of thorium based fuels in PWRs
Du Toit, M.H.; Cilliers, A.C. (Taylor & Francis, 2014)Many studies have proven that thorium-based fuel cycles are more expensive than current uranium fuel cycles, which is confirmed in this paper as well. This research, however, goes beyond the conventional nuclear ...