Development of HyPEP, A Hydrogen Production Plant Efficiency Calculation Program

Technical Report · Wed Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/911280· OSTI ID:911280

Oh, C H; Davis, C B; Sherman, S R; Vilim, S; Lee, Y J; Lee, W J

The Department of Energy envisions the next generation very high temperature gas-cooled reactor (VHTR) as a single-purpose or dual-purpose facility that produces hydrogen and electricity. The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of the Republic of Korea also selected VHTR for the Nuclear Hydrogen Development and Demonstration (NHDD) Project. The report will address the evaluation of hydrogen and electricity production cycle efficiencies for such systems as the VHTR and NHDD, and the optimization of system configurations. Optimization of such complex systems as VHTR and NHDD will require a large number of calculations involving a large number of operating parameter variations and many different system configurations. The research will produce (a) the HyPEP which is specifically designed to be an easy-to-use and fast running tool for the hydrogen and electricity production evaluation with flexible system layout, (b) thermal hydraulic calculations using reference design, (c) verification and validation of numerical tools used in this study, (d) transient analyses during start-up operation and off-normal operation. This project will also produce preliminary cost estimates of the major components.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE - NE
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-99ID13727
• OSTI ID: 911280
• Report Number(s): INL/EXT-06-01346
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

08 HYDROGEN
DESIGN
EFFICIENCY
ELECTRICITY
EVALUATION
GAS COOLED REACTORS
HYDROGEN
HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
HyPEP
OPTIMIZATION
PRODUCTION
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
START-UP
THERMAL HYDRAULICS
TRANSIENTS
VALIDATION
VERIFICATION
VHTR
hydrogen
transient analyses