Investigation of alternative layouts for the supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycle for a sodium-cooled fast reactor

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 239, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1362-1371

  Moisseytsev, Anton ^a   Sienicki, James J ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAYTON; CAPITAL COSTS; CORE OUTLET TEMPERATURE; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; CRITICAL VALUE; CYCLE EFFICIENCY; CYCLE PERFORMANCE; DIRECT COMPRESSION; FLOW SPLITS; HEAT REJECTION; HEAT SINK TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MINIMUM PRESSURE; OPTIMAL ARRANGEMENT; OPTIMAL CHOICE; PLANT SITES; RECOMPRESSING COMPRESSORS; RECOMPRESSION; SODIUM COOLED FAST REACTOR; SUPER-CRITICAL; SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDES; TEST REACTOR; TURBINE INLET TEMPERATURE;

BRAYTON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPRESSORS; COUPLED CIRCUITS; DESIGN; FAST REACTORS; HEAT SINKS; OPTIMIZATION; SODIUM;

SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION;

EID: 67349192245     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2009.03.017     Document Type: Article

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