Thermal analysis of heat and power plant with high temperature reactor and intermediate steam cycle

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Jan Sk?adzie?Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Thermal Technology, Konarskiego 22, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandOther articles by this author:De Gruyter OnlineGoogle Scholar¹  Micha? GabrielSilesian University of Technology, Institute of Thermal Technology, Konarskiego 22, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandOther articles by this author:De Gruyter OnlineGoogle Scholar¹  Adam FicCorresponding authorSilesian University of Technology, Institute of Thermal Technology, Konarskiego 22, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandEmailOther articles by this author:De Gruyter OnlineGoogle Scholar¹ 

[1] Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Thermal Technology, Konarskiego 22, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland

关键词: Keywords: Cogeneration system;    High temperature reactor;    Exergy analysis;    Gas heat pump;    Numerical simulation;   

DOI  :  10.1515/aoter-2015-0001

学科分类：能源（综合）

来源: Polska Akademia Nauk * Oddzial w Gdansku, Instytut Maszyn Przeplywowych / Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery

【 摘 要 】

Thermal analysis of a heat and power plant with a high temperature gas cooled nuclear reactor is presented. The main aim of the considered system is to supply a technological process with the heat at suitably high temperature level. The considered unit is also used to produce electricity. The high temperature helium cooled nuclear reactor is the primary heat source in the system, which consists of: the reactor cooling cycle, the steam cycle and the gas heat pump cycle. Helium used as a carrier in the first cycle (classic Brayton cycle), which includes the reactor, delivers heat in a steam generator to produce superheated steam with required parameters of the intermediate cycle. The intermediate cycle is provided to transport energy from the reactor installation to the process installation requiring a high temperature heat. The distance between reactor and the process installation is assumed short and negligable, or alternatively equal to 1 km in the analysis. The system is also equipped with a high temperature argon heat pump to obtain the temperature level of a heat carrier required by a high temperature process. Thus, the steam of the intermediate cycle supplies a lower heat exchanger of the heat pump, a process heat exchanger at the medium temperature level and a classical steam turbine system (Rankine cycle). The main purpose of the research was to evaluate the effectiveness of the system considered and to assess whether such a three cycle cogeneration system is reasonable. Multivariant calculations have been carried out employing the developed mathematical model. The results have been presented in a form of the energy efficiency and exergy efficiency of the system as a function of the temperature drop in the high temperature process heat exchanger and the reactor pressure.

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