TY - JOUR
T1 - Preliminary design of a production automation framework for a pyroprocessing facility
AU - Shin, Moonsoo
AU - Ryu, Dongseok
AU - Han, Jonghui
AU - Kim, Kiho
AU - Son, Young Jun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018
PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - Pyroprocessing technology has been regarded as a promising solution for recycling spent fuel in nuclear power plants. The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has been studying the current status of equipment and facilities for pyroprocessing and found that existing facilities are manually operated; therefore, their applications have been limited to laboratory scale because of low productivity and safety concerns. To extend the pyroprocessing technology to a commercial scale, the facility, including all the processing equipment and the material-handling devices, should be enhanced in view of automation. In an automated pyroprocessing facility, a supervised control system is needed to handle and manage material flow and associated operations. This article provides a preliminary design of the supervising system for pyroprocessing. In particular, a manufacturing execution system intended for an automated pyroprocessing facility, named Pyroprocessing Execution System, is proposed, by which the overall production process is automated via systematic collaboration with a planning system and a control system. Moreover, a simulation-based prototype system is presented to illustrate the operability of the proposed Pyroprocessing Execution System, and a simulation study to demonstrate the interoperability of the material-handling equipment with processing equipment is also provided.
AB - Pyroprocessing technology has been regarded as a promising solution for recycling spent fuel in nuclear power plants. The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has been studying the current status of equipment and facilities for pyroprocessing and found that existing facilities are manually operated; therefore, their applications have been limited to laboratory scale because of low productivity and safety concerns. To extend the pyroprocessing technology to a commercial scale, the facility, including all the processing equipment and the material-handling devices, should be enhanced in view of automation. In an automated pyroprocessing facility, a supervised control system is needed to handle and manage material flow and associated operations. This article provides a preliminary design of the supervising system for pyroprocessing. In particular, a manufacturing execution system intended for an automated pyroprocessing facility, named Pyroprocessing Execution System, is proposed, by which the overall production process is automated via systematic collaboration with a planning system and a control system. Moreover, a simulation-based prototype system is presented to illustrate the operability of the proposed Pyroprocessing Execution System, and a simulation study to demonstrate the interoperability of the material-handling equipment with processing equipment is also provided.
KW - Manufacturing Execution System
KW - Material-handling
KW - Production Automation
KW - Production Planning and Control
KW - Pyroprocessing
KW - Pyroprocessing Execution System
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U2 - 10.1016/j.net.2017.11.012
DO - 10.1016/j.net.2017.11.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85040520089
SN - 1738-5733
VL - 50
SP - 478
EP - 487
JO - Nuclear Engineering and Technology
JF - Nuclear Engineering and Technology
IS - 3
ER -