2000Mw(t) HTGR-GT power cycle cooling system alternatives

Technical Report · Sun Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6885990· OSTI ID:6885990

This power cycle cooling system study was a part of an overall effort to assess the economic potential of high temperature gas cooled reactor gas turbine (HTGR-GT) power plants. The cost, design and performance results obtained in the study for dry, wet/dry and wet tower systems designed for a 2000 MW(t)/800 Mw(e) HTGR-GT plant are presented in this report. Similar cooling system results obtained in the study for 800 MWe pressurized water reactor and coal-fired steam cycle power plants are also presented for comparisons with the HTGR-GT plant. The results indicate that the total evaluated costs (capital costs plus operating penalty costs) of the cooling systems for the HTGR-GT plant, in the range from the all-dry system to the wet/dry system using about 50% of the water needed for the all-wet system, are much lower than the costs of the cooling systems for both the PWR and coal plants with the same water constraints as the HTGR-GT plant.

• Research Organization: United Engineers and Constructors, Inc., Philadelphia, PA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-78SF02034
• OSTI ID: 6885990
• Report Number(s): DOE/SF/02034-T9
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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