中法核工程与技术学院第89期学术午餐会

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中法核工程与技术学院第89期学术午餐会

SYSU International Masters Frontier Forum

89^th Academic Lunch Seminar of Sino-French Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Technology

Topic: Research on Instrumentation and Control Systems for Nuclear Power Plants

Speaker: Prof. Jing JIANG 姜晶教授  (University of Western Ontario, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering)

Time: 12:40 – 14:00, Friday October 12, 2018

Venue: F309 in the teaching building, Zhuhai Campus, SYSU

Organizer: Sino-French Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University

Language: English

Abstract:

This talk will give a brief examination the roles that Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Systems play in a nuclear power plant and explain how such systems are crucial to maintain system safety and operational performance of the plant. The interactions between I&C systems and other system components, e.g. reactor systems, heat-transport systems, or safety systems, are also examined. Different design philosophy and reliability enhancement techniques for I&C systems are explained through examples.

Several samples of research projects at the Nuclear Power Plant Control and Instrumentation Research Lab at the University of Western Ontario in Canada are presented, including reactor as well as the plant modeling, system performance monitoring, advanced data transmission technologies (wired/wireless networks), smart sensors, and various passive safety systems. Detailed coverage on a unique testing platform for I&C systems under various operating scenarios will also be made. To respond to accident conditions, some recent research progress on post-accident monitoring systems will also be explained.

The talk will also cover some of the latest developments in Canadian nuclear industries and the activities at the IAEA in the above areas.

About the speaker:

Dr. Jing JIANG is currently a professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, in Canada. He has held an NSERC/UNENE Senior Industrial Research Chair in the field of control, instrumentation, and electrical systems for nuclear power plants (NPPs) since 2003. Prof. JIANG has several honorary positions, including Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow. He is also the member of the “Recruitment Program of Global Experts” (Short Term) of China (known as “the Thousand Talents Plan”), the international review expert of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Prof. JIANG has wide range of research interests, including fault-tolerant control of nuclear power plants, control theory and applied research of Industrial Internet of Things, renewable energy sources and power systems and he has proposed numerous groundbreaking concepts, ideas and effective solutions. Prof. JIANG has published extensively in the above areas. His publication record includes over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers (more than 150 papers are indexed by SCI and more than 200 papers are indexed by EI), six books and book chapters, with other citations of more than 10,000 times. Prof. JIANG has held a series of national and international research grants in the fields of fault-tolerant control, instrumentation and control for nuclear power plants, new energy and renewable energy sources, application of wireless sensor.