Publication Date:
2019
Description:
〈p〉Publication date: 3 September 2019〈/p〉
〈p〉〈b〉Source:〈/b〉 International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 44, Issue 42〈/p〉
〈p〉Author(s): Rami S. El-Emam, Ibrahim Dincer, Calin Zamfirescu〈/p〉
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〈h5〉Abstract〈/h5〉
〈div〉〈p〉Nuclear energy is considered a key alternative to overcome the environmental issues caused by fossil fuels. It offers opportunities with an improved operating efficiency and safety for producing power, synthetic fuels, delivering process heat and for multigeneration applications. The high-temperature nuclear reactors, although possess great potential for integration with thermochemical water-splitting cycles for hydrogen production, are not yet commercially established. Current nuclear reactor designs providing heat at relatively low temperature can be utilized to produce hydrogen using thermochemical cycles if the temperature of their thermal heat is increased. In this paper, a hybrid chemical-mechanical heat pump system is proposed for upgrading the heat of the Enhanced CANDU (EC6) reactor design to the quality required for the copper-chlorine (Cu–Cl) hybrid thermochemical water splitting cycle operating at 550–600 °C. A modification to the heat pump is proposed to bring the heat to temperature higher than 650 °C with operating coefficient of performance estimated as 0.65.〈/p〉〈/div〉
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Print ISSN:
0360-3199
Electronic ISSN:
1879-3487
Topics:
Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
