Thermodynamic analyses for optimizing the design of HTGR's helium brayton cycles

WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1014-1025

  Alexe, Florin ^a   Cenusa, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

And thermodynamic optimization; Brayton cycle; HTGR; Irreversibility; Numerical computation; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

COOLING; HELIUM; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 57749093917     PISSN: 17905079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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