Advanced Intermediate Heat Transport Loop Design Configurations for Hydrogen Production Using High Temperature Nuclear Reactors

摘要

Some of the conclusions from this phase of the study are: 1. The use of an indirect cycle causes the overall efficiency of the plant to decrease by 1.1% compared to a direct cycle based on the temperature drop assumptions used for this analysis. 2. The use of a parallel heat exchanger in the intermediate loop causes the overall efficiency to increase by 0.1 - 0.3% compared to use of a serial heat exchanger. 3.The variations in overall efficiency were generally small between configurations.