RCNET Maintenance Toolkit: Instrumentation and Control

Toolkit Description: 
This Instrumentation and Control course is from RCNET Comprehensive Teaching Toolkit: Maintenance and is drawn from curriculum taught in the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Training Program. The program is designed to train nuclear maintenance technicians to work in nuclear power plants and covers Electrical Maintenance, Instrumentation and Control Maintenance, and Mechanical Maintenance.

Toolkit Course Contents:
RCNET Maintenance Toolkit: Instrumentation and Control covers the topics of balance of plant, digital feedwater control systems, fire detection and protection systems, loop-design, calibration, troubleshooting, plant systems, reactor power cutback systems, supplemental protection logic assembly, control element drive mechanism systems, engineered safety features actuation systems, gaseous radwaste and explosive gas monitors, neutron monitoring Excore systems, process measurement and control equipment, reactor regulating systems, and vibration. 

Materials available as part of the Teaching Toolkit include 51 multi-part lesson plans, 23 PowerPoints, and seven course overviews.

Lesson plans include duration time, objectives, lesson introduction, classroom guidelines, motivation, a lesson outline, as well as a summary of main principles with an objectives review, question and answer section, and problem areas.

The PowerPoints include lesson presentations and a collection of drawings.

Course overviews include purpose and objectives of the course, who the course is designed for, prerequisites, course methods, course length, retrain interval, class size, passing score, and active lesson plans. 

For orientation purposes Balance of Plant Engineered Safety Features Actuation System Lesson.pdf is included as a separate attachment and offers a sample of the type of material included in this course. 

Below is a list of the files contained within the .zip attachment. The size of each file is included in parenthesis. 

Instrumentation and Control (97 files, 680 MB)

• Balance of Plant
  • Balance of Plant Engineered Safety Features Actuation System Lesson (Balance of Plant Engineered Safety Features Actuation System.pdf 1.2 MB)
  • Balance of Plant Engineered Safety Features Actuation System (Balance of Plant Engineered Safety Features Actuation System.ppt 7.9 MB)
• Control Element Drive Mechanism System
  • Control Element Drive Mechanism System Lesson (Control Element Drive Mechanism System.pdf 779 KB)
  • Control Element Drive Mechanism System (Control Element Drive Mechanism System.ppt 108.4 MB)
  • Course Overview (Course Overview_Control Element Drive Mechanism System.pdf 100 KB)
• Digital Feedwater Control System
  • Digital Feedwater Control System Lesson (Digital Feedwater Control System.pdf 335 KB)
  • Digital Feedwater Control System (Digital Feedwater Control System.ppt 90.1 MB)
• Engineered Safety Features Actuation System
  • Balance of Plant Lesson (Balance of Plant_ESFAS.pdf 1.4 MB)
  • Course Overview (Course Overview.pdf 62 KB)
  • Nuclear Steam Supply System Engineered Safety Features Actuation System (NSS/ESFAS) Lesson (NID18C000103 signed scanned copy.rtf (1).pdf 15.4 MB)
  • Plant Protection System Lesson  (Plant Protection System.pdf 567 KB)
  • Plant Protection System (Plant Protection System.pptx 24.4 MB)
• Fire Detection and Protection Systems
  • Carbon Dioxide--Fire Protection System Instructor Notes and Lesson (Carbon Dioxide--Fire Protection System.docx 291 KB)
  • Fire Detection & Protection System (Fire Detection & Protection System.ppt 117.1 MB)
  • Halon--Fire Protection System Lesson (Halon--Fire Protection System.docx 255 KB)
  • Operation and Interface--Fire Detection System Lesson (Operation and Interface--Fire Detection System.rtf 3.8 MB)
  • Overview--Fire Detection and Protection Lesson (Overview--Fire Detection and Protection.docx 316 KB)
  • Water Protection--Fire Protection System Lesson (Water Protection--Fire Protection System.rtf 3.7 MB)
• Gaseous Radwaste and Explosive Gas Monitor
  • Diagnostic and Service Center Lesson (Diagnostic and Service Center.pdf 525 KB)
  • Explosive Gas Monitor System Lesson (Explosive Gas Monitor System.pdf 1.2 MB)
  • Gaseous Radwaste and Explosive Gas Monitor (Gaseous Radwaste and Explosive Gas Monitor.ppt 40 MB)
  • Course Overview (Gaseous Radwaste and Explosive Gas Monitoring System.pdf 39 KB)
  • Gaseous Radwaste Explosive Gas Monitor Lesson (Gaseous Radwaste Explosive Gas Monitor.pdf 664 KB)
  • Sensor Rebuild Lesson (Sensor Rebuild.pdf 730 KB)
• Loop Design, Calibration, Troubleshooting, Industry Events
  • Coding and Configuration Lesson (Coding and Configuration (Foxboro SPEC 200).pdf 294 KB)
  • Coding and Configuration (Coding and Configuration.ppt 20.7 MB)
  • Industry Events (Industry Events.ppt 8 MB)
  • Instrument Isolation and Restoration Lesson (Instrument Isolation and Restoration.pdf 361 KB)
  • Loop Calibration drawings (Loop Calibration drawings.ppt 12.6 MB)
  • Loop Calibration, Control and Troubleshooting (Loop Calibration, Control and Troubleshooting.ppt 15.4 MB)
  • Loop Calibration Lesson (Loop Calibration.pdf 287 KB)
  • Loop Control Lesson (Loop Control.pdf 354 KB)
  • Loop Troubleshooting Lesson (Loop Troubleshooting.pdf 306 KB)
  • Loop Tuning (Loop Tuning.ppt 19.6 MB)
  • Systematic Troubleshooting (Systematic Troubleshooting.ppt 1.5 MB)
• Neutron Monitoring Encore System
  • Basic Excore Laboratory Practical Evaluation (Basic Excore Laboratory Practical Evaluation.pdf 192 KB)
  • Course Overview (Course Overview.pdf 69 KB)
  • Excore Neutron Monitoring (Excore Neutron Monitoring.ppt 17.2 MB)
  • Safety Channel Excore Lesson (Safety Channel Excore.pdf 362 KB)
  • Start-up Control Excore System Lesson (Start-up_Control Excore System.pdf 232 KB)
• Plant Systems
  • Auxiliary Feedwater System Lesson (Auxiliary Feedwater System.rtf 6.1 MB)
  • Chemical and Oily Waste Water Lesson (Chemical and Oily Waste Water.rtf 3.2 MB)
  • Chemical and Volume Control System Lesson (Chemical and Volume Control System.docx 212 KB)
  • Circulating Water Lesson (Circulating Water.rtf 48 KB)
  • Condensate and Feedwater Systems Lesson (Condensate and Feedwater Systems.docx 219 KB)
  • Course Introduction (Course Introduction.rtf 38 KB)
  • Electrical Systems Lesson (Electrical Systems.rtf 3.2 MB)
  • Essential Ventilation Systems Lesson (Essential Ventilation Systems.rtf 3.2 MB)
  • Extraction Steam and Heater Drain Lesson (Extraction Steam and Heater Drain.rtf 3.1 MB)
  • Fire Protection Systems Lesson (Fire Protection Systems.rtf 3.2 MB)
  • Fuel Handling and Storage Systems Lesson (Fuel Handling and Storage Systems.rtf 3.2 MB)
  • Fuel Pool Cooling and Cleanup System Lesson (Fuel Pool Cooling and Cleanup System.docx 205 KB)
  • Main Steam System Lesson (Main Steam System.rtf 3.2 MB)
  • Main Turbine System Lesson (Main Turbine System.rtf 3.2 MB)
  • Non-Safety Related Cooling Water Systems Lesson (Non-Safety Related Cooling Water Systems.rtf 3.2 MB)
  • Radioactive Waste Management Lesson (Radioactive Waste Management.rtf 3.2 MB)
  • Reactor Coolant System Lesson (Reactor Coolant System.docx 220 KB)
  • Safety Injection Lesson (Safety Injection.rtf 3.2 MB)
  • Safety Related Cooling Water Lesson (Safety Related Cooling Water.rtf 3.2 MB)
  • Service Air and Gas Systems Lesson (Service Air and Gas Systems.rtf 3.2 MB)
• Process Measurement and Control Equipment
  • Flow Control Valves (Pneumatic) Lesson (Flow Control Valves (Pneumatic).pdf 284 KB)
  • Flow Control Valves (Pneumatic) (Flow Control Valves (Pneumatic).ppt 2.6 MB)
  • Flow Measurement Lesson (Flow Measurement.pdf 292 KB)
  • Flow Measurement (Flow Measurement.ppt 8.6 MB)
  • Level Measurement Lesson (Level Measurement.pdf 348 KB)
  • Level Measurement (Level Measurement.ppt 12.7 MB)
  • Measurement System (Measurement System.ppt 8.3 MB)
  • Pneumatic Instruments Lesson (Pneumatic Instruments.pdf 310 KB)
  • Pneumatic Instruments (Pneumatic Instruments.ppt 3.7 MB)
  • Pressure Measurement Lesson (Pressure Measurement.pdf 303 KB)
  • Pressure Measurement (Pressure Measurement.ppt 17.7 MB)
  • Temperature Measurement Lesson (Temperature Measurement.pdf 304 KB)
  • Temperature Measurement (Temperature Measurement.ppt 8.4 MB)
• Reactor Power Cutback System
  • Course Overview Reactor Power Cutback System (Course Overview Reactor Power Cutback System.pdf 122 KB)
  • Reactor Power Cutback System Lesson (Reactor Power Cutback System.pdf 252 KB)
  • Reactor Power Cutback System (Reactor Power Cutback System.ppt 19.2 MB)
• Reactor Regulating System
  • Reactor Regulating System Lesson (Reactor Regulating System.pdf 469 KB)
  • Reactor Regulating System (Reactor Regulating System.ppt 4.1 MB)
• Supplemental Protection Logic Assembly
  • Course Overview--Supplemental Protection Logic Assembly (Course Overview--Supplemental Protection Logic Assembly.pdf 39 KB)
  • Supplemental Protection Logic Assembly Lesson (Supplemental Protection Logic Assembly.pdf 208 KB)
  • Supplemental Protection Logic Assembly (Supplemental Protection Logic Assembly.ppt 25.2 MB)
• Vibration
  • Vibration and Loose Parts Lesson (Vibration and Loose Parts.pdf 221 KB)