Abstract
The pressurizer is an essential part of the safe operation of the nuclear power plant. It contains both the steam phase and the liquid phase, which requires simultaneous control of the pressure and water level, and the control system is strongly coupled. When using the PID control method, it is difficult to tune the parameters, and the difficulty is exacerbated when the set value fluctuates. This paper aims at the multi-input and multi-output pressurizer control system, based on the particle swarm optimization to realize the PID controller parameters self-tuning, adopting the time and absolute error integral as the fitness function to evaluate the merits of the PID parameters, and constantly iterating to update and obtain the PID parameters that better satisfy the current working conditions. For coupled pressurizer control systems, the PID parameter tuning method using particle swarm optimization algorithms can give a group of PID controller parameters that make the system operation stable despite the frequent fluctuation of the set value, and compared with the traditional PID controller parameter tuning method, this method can realize the PID parameter self-tuning, eliminating the trouble of manual tuning.
