Development and Verification of a Transient Analysis Tool for Reactor System Using Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycle as Power Conversion System

Joint Authors

Shan, Jianqiang
Wu, Pan
Gao, Chuntian

Source

Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations

Issue

Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-14, 14 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2018-09-02

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

14

Abstract EN

Supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle is a good choice of thermal-to-electric energy conversion system, which owns a high cycle efficiency and a compact cycle configuration.

It can be used in many power-generation applications, such as nuclear power, concentrated solar thermal, fossil fuel boilers, and shipboard propulsion system.

Transient analysis code for Supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle is a necessity in the areas of transient analyses, control strategy study, and accident analyses.

In this paper, a transient analysis code SCTRAN/CO2 is developed for Supercritical CO2 Brayton Loop based on a homogenous model.

Heat conduction model, point neutron power model (which is developed for nuclear power application), turbomachinery model for gas turbine, compressor and shaft model, and PCHE type recuperator model are all included in this transient analysis code.

The initial verifications were performed for components and constitutive models like heat transfer model, friction model, and compressor model.

The verification of integrated system transient was also conducted through making comparison with experiment data of SCO2EP of KAIST.

The comparison results show that SCTRAN/CO2 owns the ability to simulate transient process for S-CO2 Brayton cycle.

SCTRAN/CO2 will become an important tool for further study of Supercritical CO2 Bryton cycle-based nuclear reactor concepts.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Wu, Pan& Gao, Chuntian& Shan, Jianqiang. 2018. Development and Verification of a Transient Analysis Tool for Reactor System Using Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycle as Power Conversion System. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214979

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Wu, Pan…[et al.]. Development and Verification of a Transient Analysis Tool for Reactor System Using Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycle as Power Conversion System. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214979

American Medical Association (AMA)

Wu, Pan& Gao, Chuntian& Shan, Jianqiang. Development and Verification of a Transient Analysis Tool for Reactor System Using Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycle as Power Conversion System. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214979

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-1214979