Preliminary Development of the FPGA based Reactor Protection Systems for Reaktor Daya Eksperimental (RDE)

Abstract

The reactor protection system is a very vital and essential system to ensure the safe operation of the Reaktor Daya Eksperimental (RDE). The current reactor protection system mostly uses a lot of analog components. The analog system is more sensitive to the noise, and more expensive compared with the digital system. Therefore, this study aims to design and model the reactor protection system based on a digital platform using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The FPGA platform is selected because of the high reliability, easy for reprogrammed and having high loop rate execution. This research method covers the preliminary design of the reactor protection system using FPGA CompactRIO. The verification and validation are then employed to ensure the reliability of RPS. Furthermore, this system is tested with various postulated initiating event of the RDE’s design basic accident. The result of this research is that FPGA has excellent reliability and has a fast response. It can be concluded that the simulation of the reactor protection system using FPGA can be used in the reactor protection system after being verified and validated.