Abstract:Aiming at the problems of large dead zone, significant nonlinear gain, and response lag in the mechanical overspeed protection system of the turbine-driven auxiliary feedwater pump(TDAFWP)in pressurized water reactor(PWR)nuclear power plants, an open-loop protection scheme based on"magnetic field perception+discrete component hard logic"is proposed. A dynamic model of the differential pressure speed regulation system is established to reveal the mechanism of speed instability under low-flow conditions. A"two-out-of-three"(2oo3)hardware voting architecture based on high-precision magnetic sensors and discrete chips conforming to the GJB 548B standard is designed to eliminate the risk of software common cause failures. A Markov state transition model is established to quantitatively evaluate the safety integrity of the system, and the measurement uncertainty is assessed. Experimental results show that the combined standard uncertainty of the system is 0.64 rpm, the synchronous deviation among the three channels is less than 0.02%, and the trip response time is approximately 20 ms. The system is verified to meet the SIL3 safety integrity level through the Markov model and has passed the nuclear safety class 1E environmental qualification. Engineering application shows that the proposed scheme has been successfully implemented in a nuclear power plant outage, achieving a 100% first-pass rate in overspeed trip tests and reducing the outage critical path by approximately 8 h. The proposed scheme transforms continuous nonlinear closed-loop regulation into discrete open-loop protection, effectively improving the operational stability and safety of the equipment.