COMPARISON OF S-CO2 POWER CYCLES FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY

0468486 - ÚFP 2017 RIV CZ eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Veselý, L. - Dostál, V. - Entler, Slavomír
COMPARISON OF S-CO2 POWER CYCLES FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY.
Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings. Prague: Czech Technical University in Prague, 2016 - (Vojtěch Caha, V.; Cesnek, M.; Kecek, A.; Ševeček, M.; Štefánik, M.), s. 107-112. ISBN 978-80-01-06069-8. E-ISSN 2336-5382.
[Czecho-Slovak Student Conference on Nuclear Engineering, ŠIMÁNĚ 2016. Šimáně (CZ), 12.05.2016-13.05.2016]
Institutional support: RVO:61389021
Keywords : S-CO2 * power cycle * fusion
Subject RIV: JF - Nuclear Energetics
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The supercritical carbon dioxide (S-CO2) is a possible cooling system for the new generations of nuclear reactors and fusion reactors. The S-CO2 power cycles have several advantages over other possible coolants such as water and helium. The advantages are the compression work, which is lower than in the case of helium, near the critical point and the S-CO2 is more compact than water and helium. The disadvantage is so called Pinch point which occurs in the regenerative heat exchanger. The pinch point can be eliminated by an arrangement of the cycle or using a mixture of CO2. This paper describes the S-CO2 power cycles for nuclear fission and fusion reactors.
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