Analysis of supercritical CO2 Brayton power cycles in nuclear and fusion energy

0519182 - ÚFP 2020 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Syblik, J. - Veselý, L. - Entler, Slavomír - Štepánek, J. - Dostál, V.
Analysis of supercritical CO2 Brayton power cycles in nuclear and fusion energy.
Fusion Engineering and Design. Roč. 146, September (2019), s. 1520-1523. ISSN 0920-3796. E-ISSN 1873-7196
Institutional support: RVO:61389021
Keywords : Cooling cycle * Nuclear fusion * Supercritical CO2 * demo 2
OECD category: Nuclear physics
Impact factor: 1.692, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379619303011?via%3Dihub

The first part of this article focuses on proposal of the appropriate cooling cycle for the specific fusion reactor. Furthermore, cooling technology of fusion power plant, two supercritical CO2 Brayton cycles and its positive and negative aspects are described. Additionally, comparison of cycles in terms of difficulty and possibilities of using more resources at once are depicted. This work also gives a principal preview of main technical parameters of supercritical CO2 cooling system. The second part describes the optimization of suggested design in order to maximize power of a fusion power plant and new computational software for optimization of the cooling cycles therewith, which would be also useful in the field of nuclear power engineering. The results of this article is comparison of efficiencies, power and other physical parameters of two layouts.
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