Recent status and prospects on thermochemical heat storage processes and applications

TRS Gbenou, A Fopah-Lele, K Wang - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent contributions to thermochemical heat storage (TCHS) technology have been
reviewed and have revealed that there are four main branches whose mastery could …

Macroscopic and microscopic investigations of low-temperature thermochemical heat storage reactors: a review

TRS Gbenou, A Fopah-Lele, K Wang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Characteristics of thermochemical energy storage (TCES) reactors for temperatures below
125° C at microscopic and macroscopic levels are investigated in the present paper. These …

Feasibility study to increase the reactor power at natural convection mode in Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) through a hybrid thermal-hydraulic simulation and …

A Hedayat, A Davari - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Some irradiating applications can be used economically at a low power range and energy
consumption. Moreover, removing the decay heat by the natural convection plays a very …

Cooldown of a water-cooled reactor during the natural circulation mode using decay heat of the core and a low-power steam turbine

VE Yurin, AN Egorov, DO Bashlykov - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2023 - Elsevier
The Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant accident in 2011 confirms that NPP safety is one of
the most urgent present-day problems. Moreover, a rapidly growing number of NPP units …

Coolant flow rate instability during extended station blackout accident in NuScale SMR: Two approaches for improving flow stability

A Fakhraei, F Faghihi, A Rabiee, M Safarinia - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, small modular reactors have become an appropriate alternative option for
replacement with most fossil fuel plants and also in some cases with reactors of past …

Stability analysis of a single phase rectangular coupled natural circulation loop system employing a Fourier series based 1-D model

A Dass, S Gedupudi - Chemical Engineering Science, 2022 - Elsevier
A linear stability analysis of a single-phase Coupled Natural Circulation Loop (CNCL) is
carried out, and the stability maps of the CNCL system are obtained. A Fourier series based …

State space modelling development of Micro-High-Temperature Gas-Cooled reactor with helium Brayton cycle

L Qiu, S Fan, S Liao, P Sun, X Wei - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The micro-high-temperature gas-cooled reactor with helium Brayton cycle (Mi-HTR) can be
used as a portable micro mobile nuclear power supply. The nonlinear model based on …

DYSN: Dynamics simulator for the NuScale SMR-A mathematical framework for transient analysis

A Fakhraei, F Faghihi, M Mohammadi… - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Several innovations have been devised to design a system with lower capital cost and
passive safety features in NuScale SMR. The system incorporates primary natural circulation …

Developing a robust and flexible smart tool to predict a full range Critical Heat Flux (CHF) in different LWRs by using deep learning Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) …

A Hedayat - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, a practical smart tool has been developed to predict CHF in LWRs. The tool is
based on the strengthen cascade feed forward ANNs in addition of some of the deep …

The role of advanced nuclear reactors in non-electrical and strategic applications, producing sustainable energy supplies and reducing the greenhouse gasses

A Hedayat - Kerntechnik, 2022 - degruyter.com
Nowadays, nuclear reactors became extremely fascinating not only for most of the nuclear
communities but also for the prominent energy suppliers to fix the global warming effects …