Small particle bed reactors: Sensitivity to Brayton cycle parameters
Abstract
Relatively simple particle bed reactor (PBR) algorithms were developed for optimizing low power closed Brayton cycle (CBC) systems. These algorithms allow the system designer to understand the relationship among key system parameters as well as the sensitivity of the PBR size and mass (a major system component) to variations in these parameters. Thus, system optimization can be achieved.
- Publication:
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Transactions of the Fifth Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems
- Pub Date:
- 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988snps.symp..557C
- Keywords:
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- Algorithms;
- Optimization;
- Pebble Bed Reactors;
- Reactor Design;
- Reactor Technology;
- Structural Design;
- Brayton Cycle;
- Constraints;
- Frit;
- Nuclear Fuel Elements;
- Requirements;
- Nuclear and High-Energy Physics