Power Conversion Study for High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors
Abstract
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is investigating a Brayton cycle efficiency improvement on a high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) as part of Generation-IV nuclear engineering research initiative. There are some technical issues to be resolved before the selection of the final design of the high temperature gascooled reactor, called as a Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP), which is supposed to be built at the INEEL by year 2017. The technical issues are the selection of the working fluid, direct vs. indirect cycle, power cycle type, the optimized design in terms of a number of intercoolers, and others. In this paper, we investigated a number of working fluids for the power conversion loop, direct versus indirect cycle, the effect of intercoolers, and other thermal hydraulics issues. However, in this paper, we present part of the results we have obtained. HYSYS computer code was used along with a computer model developed using Visual Basic computer language.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- DOE - NE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 911079
- Report Number(s):
- INEEL/CON-05-02618
TRN: US0704384
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC07-99ID-13727
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ICAPP-05,Soeul Korea,05/15/2005,05/19/2005
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 21 - SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; BRAYTON CYCLE; COMPUTER CODES; COMPUTERS; DESIGN; EFFICIENCY; GAS COOLED REACTORS; INEEL; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; THERMAL HYDRAULICS; WORKING FLUIDS; Brayton Cycle; HTGR; INL; power conversion study
Citation Formats
Oh, Chang, Moore, Richard, and Barner, Robert. Power Conversion Study for High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors. United States: N. p., 2005.
Web.
Oh, Chang, Moore, Richard, & Barner, Robert. Power Conversion Study for High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors. United States.
Oh, Chang, Moore, Richard, and Barner, Robert. 2005.
"Power Conversion Study for High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/911079.
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abstractNote = {The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is investigating a Brayton cycle efficiency improvement on a high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) as part of Generation-IV nuclear engineering research initiative. There are some technical issues to be resolved before the selection of the final design of the high temperature gascooled reactor, called as a Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP), which is supposed to be built at the INEEL by year 2017. The technical issues are the selection of the working fluid, direct vs. indirect cycle, power cycle type, the optimized design in terms of a number of intercoolers, and others. In this paper, we investigated a number of working fluids for the power conversion loop, direct versus indirect cycle, the effect of intercoolers, and other thermal hydraulics issues. However, in this paper, we present part of the results we have obtained. HYSYS computer code was used along with a computer model developed using Visual Basic computer language.},
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