Multichamber hydrogen generating plant heated by nuclear reactor cooling gas. [mixture of steam and CO flows through a reaction chamber charged with a granulated metal oxide]

Patent · Tue Jul 19 04:00:00 EDT 1977

OSTI ID:5654855

Baumgaertner, H

Disclosed is plant for the production and utilization of heat energy derived from a gas-cooled, high temperature nuclear reactor, preferably to produce hydrogen in secondary reactors, comprising a thick-walled vessel; a high temperature reactor contained in a centrally oriented cavity within the vessel; a number of steam generators corresponding to the number of the secondary reactors, the generators likewise being contained in the wall of the vessel; a number of blowers corresponding to the number of the steam generators each of the blowers also being contaned in the wall of the vessel and being positioned beneath one of the steam generators; conduit means for transporting hot cooling gas from the nuclear reactor to the secondary reactors and from the secondary reactors to the blowers; and conduit means for transporting the cooling gas from each of the blowers to the nuclear reactor in a manner so that the gas surrounds the nuclear reactor, the secondary reactors, the blowers and the hot gas conduit means. 15 claims.

• Assignee: Hochtemperatur-Reactorbau GmbH
• Patent Number(s): US 4036689
• OSTI ID: 5654855
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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