Plant simulator

• US 20070136038A1
• Filed: 12/05/2006
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kato, Takahisa, Otsuka, Hirokazu, Otsuka, Yukio, Kawai, Kensuke
• Application Number:
  US11/633,526
• Publication Number:
  US 20070136038A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/6
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 17/02 electric

Abstract

A plant simulator which makes it possible to set factors which could invite a system accident and to simulate the process of occurrence of a system accident. The plant simulator has a plant monitoring and operation unit 300 which displays on a display screen parameters and the plant status computed by a plant simulation unit and, by using this display screen, gives the plant simulation unit the operation performed on the plant; and a simulation instructing unit 100 which, connected to a terminal screen, gives the plant simulation unit the setting of initial values necessary for simulation from this terminal screen and a demand instruction, which may be to demand discontinuation of the execution of simulation, the plant simulator simulating a system accident according to a control model and a plant model, further including a system accident factor database 504 in which action logics of system accident factors matching the control model are stored; a system accident factor selecting unit 500 having a selecting device for taking out data stored in this system accident factor database; and a system accident executing unit 400 which executes a system accident on the basis of data taken out of the system accident factor selecting unit, whereby the system accident is simulated.

Claims

1. A plant simulator comprising a plant simulation unit which simulates the behavior of a plant;

a plant monitoring and operation unit which displays on a display screen parameters and the plant status computed by this plant simulation unit and, by using this display screen, gives the plant simulation unit the operation performed on the plant; and

a simulation instructing unit which, connected to a terminal screen, gives the plant simulation unit the setting of initial values necessary for simulation from this terminal screen and a demand instruction, which may be to demand discontinuation of the execution of simulation, the plant simulator simulating a system accident according to a control model and a plant model, further comprising;

a system accident factor database in which action logics of system accident factors matching the control model are stored;

a system accident factor selecting unit having a selecting device for taking out data stored in this system accident factor database; and

a system accident executing unit which executes a system accident on the basis of data taken out of the system accident factor selecting unit, whereby;

the system accident is simulated.

2. The plant simulator according to claim 1, further comprising:

a system accident factor database storing defective logic data in the control model, wherein;

the system accident factor selecting unit replaces the control logic in the control model with defective logic data taken out of the system accident factor database, and a system accident due to the defectiveness of the control logic is simulated.

3. The plant simulator according to claim 1, further comprising:

a system accident factor database storing defective control logic parameters in the control model, wherein;

the system accident factor selecting unit replaces the control logic parameters in the control model with defective control logic parameters taken out of the system accident factor database, and a system accident due to the defectiveness of the control logic parameters is simulated.

4. The plant simulator according to claim 1, further comprising:

a system accident factor database storing data on defective plant constituent items in the plant model, wherein;

the system accident factor selecting unit replaces the plant constituent items in the plant model with defective plant constituent items, and a system accident due to the defectiveness of the plant constituent items is simulated.

5. The plant simulator according to claim 1, further comprising:

a system accident factor database storing parameter data of plant constituent items in the plant model, wherein;

the system accident factor selecting unit simulates a system accident due to the defectiveness of the parameter of plant constituent items in the plant model.

6. The plant simulator according to claim 1, wherein:

the system accident executing unit simulates a system accident scenario by generating a system accident event or events and a conventionally known plant accident event or events with such conditions as time and plant status attached to it.

7. The plant simulator according to claim 1, wherein:

the system accident executing unit comprises;

an evaluating device which gives an evaluation to such an effect that the plant parameters and the plant status at the time of simulating a system accident or a system accident scenario satisfy determination criteria and accordingly are valid.

8. The plant simulator according to claim 7, wherein:

the system accident executing unit comprises;

a determination criteria generating device which enables the user to set as desired determination criteria for performing simulated evaluation of a system accident or a system accident scenario.