Bijnan Bandyopadhyay
IIT, Jodhpur
Bijnan Bandyopadhyay is currently serving as a Visiting Professor at IIT Jodhpur. He received his BE in electronics and telecommunication engineering from the University of Calcutta in 1978 and his PhD in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi in 1986. He specialises in multi-rate output feedback-based discrete time sliding mode control and nuclear reactor control. In 1987, he joined the Systems and Control Engineering group at IIT Bombay as a faculty member, where he served as Chair Professor between 2015 and 2021. In 1996, he was with the Lehrstuhl fur Elektrische Steuerung und Regelung, RUB, Bochum, Germany, as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. He has 450 publications to his credit and is a recipient of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Award of the IEEE IES Society (2019). He was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, London (2009 and 2012), is an elected Fellow of all three major science academies in India and is a Life Fellow of IEEE. Elected as Fellow in 2020.
Session 2A - Lectures by Fellows and Associates
Appa Rao Podile, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Modelling and control of large size nuclear reactors
In this talk, the speaker will discuss the modelling and controlling of a large pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR). At first, the flux equations of two energy groups will be discussed. It will be shown how these two group equations are converted into ordinary differential equations using the nodal techniques. By applying one and half group theory, these equations are converted into one group power equations for all the nodes. Finally, a linear model of 70th order, 14 inputs and 14 outputs are obtained in state space. The design of the controller will be discussed for this reactor model, and its efficacy will be illustrated by nonlinear simulation.