Nuclear Power Facility Controls System Modernizations—Upgrades and Conversions

In nuclear facilities, as equipment and the automation hardware and software controls that are required to run the equipment age, several business issues must be dealt with, including:

• Production inefficiencies
• Reduced market competitiveness
• Increased potential of hazardous situations related to leakage and/or corrosion of equipment and instability of controls
• Obsolescence of controls components because replacement parts are no longer available in the marketplace

Where controls are an issue, the overriding challenge is to perform the controls upgrades and/or conversions without interrupting existing nuclear operations.

Brock Solutions applies a “Zero Downtime/Phased-In” approach when upgrading nuclear power generation control systems and/or implementing DCS to PLC technology conversions. Highlights of Brock’s approach include:

• I/O emulation to enable complete testing of new controls equipment prior to installation
• Customer “test drives” and validation of functionality during Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs)
• System changeovers performed parallel to existing systems one drive I/O section at a time, with allowance for full reversibility

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