Application of data fusion method to fault diagnosis of nuclear power plant

The work condition of nuclear power plant (NPP) is very bad, which makes it has faults easily. In order to diagnose the faults real time, the fusion diagnosis system is built. The data fusion fault diagnosis system adopts data fusion method and divides the fault diagnosis into three levels, which are data fusion level, feature level and decision level. The feature level uses three parallel neural networks whose structures are the same. The purpose of using neural networks is mainly to get basic probability assignment (BPA) of D-S evidence theory, and the neural networks in feature level are used for local diagnosis. D-S evidence theory is adopted to integrate the local diagnosis results in decision level. The reactor coolant system is the study object and we choose 2# steam generator U-tubes break of the reactor coolant system as a diagnostic example. The experiments prove that the fusion diagnosis system can satisfy the fault diagnosis requirement of complicated system, and verify that the fusion fault diagnosis system can realize the fault diagnosis of NPP on line timely.