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Design and Development of Process-Powered Sensors on Wireless Sensor Network for Stand-alone Plant Critical Data Management During SBO and Beyond Design Basis Events

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Considering the need to access crucial parameters in a nuclear reactor during station blackout condition (SBO), we have proposed self-powered or process-powered sensors with wireless data transmission. Low-power electronics comprising a piezoresistive pressure sensor, amplifier, and wireless transmitter was developed for demonstration of process-powered sensor operation. The required electrical power was derived using a thermoelectric generator as an energy harvester which converts heat energy from the process to electrical energy and drives the complete electronics along with the wireless transmitter. A power management circuitry has been used for management of power fed to the electronics. The complete instrumentation has been tested in the laboratory to demonstrate the operation of process-powered sensor and wireless instrumentation. Such approach would be suitable for wireless network of self-powered/process-powered sensors and also for wearable devices by operators. An overview of this development is presented in this paper.

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  1. Reactor Engineering Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, 400085, India

    J. Aparna, I. V. Dulera & A. Rama Rao

  2. Electronics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, 400085, India

    Sebin Philip, Anita Topkar & D. Das

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  1. Thermal Hydraulics Section, Reactor Engineering Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    A.K. Nayak

  2. Nuclear Power Safety Division, Alba Nova, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Bal Raj Sehgal

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Aparna, J., Philip, S., Topkar, A., Dulera, I.V., Das, D., Rama Rao, A. (2019). Design and Development of Process-Powered Sensors on Wireless Sensor Network for Stand-alone Plant Critical Data Management During SBO and Beyond Design Basis Events. In: Nayak, A., Sehgal, B. (eds) Thorium—Energy for the Future. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2658-5_45

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