Nabeel Hidayat, Riaz Jafri, Assistant Professor, Adnan Hafiz, Associate Professor, Taliv Hussain, Assistant Professor, Zahid Subhani
Department of Mechanical Engineering, ZHCET, AMU, India.
Thermodynamic Analysis of Nuclear Reactor Assisted Gas Turbine Power Plant
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Abstract
The demand for energy is increasing daily all over the globe. The fossil fuels are expected to be depleted in the near future. So there is a need for alternative sources of energy generation. Also , there is a need to improve the performance of already existing cycles and modify them. In this paper , the conventional gas turbine cycle which operates on Brayton cycle has been modified with the combustion chamber replaced by High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor ( HTGR) . Helium is used as the working fluid in a closed cycle Brayton cycle incorporating a Recuperator ( Heat Exchanger). Analysis is carried out by varying the Gas Turbine Inlet Temperature (TIT).