Design and Feasibility Analysis of the Electricity Generation System Based on Residual Heat

Abstract

Passive residual heat removal system (PRHRS) is of great significance for reactor shutdown safety. The PRHRS of a small modular reactor, such as the integral pressurized water reactor (iPWR) and the modular high temperature gas-cooled reactor (MHTRG), is composed of the primary loop (PL), intermediate loop (IL) and air-cooling loop (AL). The AL is a density-difference-driven natural circulation caused by the difference of air temperature at the inlet and outlet of the air-cooling tower. Thus, it is possible to adopt the air flow in AL to generate electricity for post-shutdown reactor monitoring. In this paper, a novel residual heat electricity generation system (RHEGS), which is composed of the PRHRS and a vertical wind generator installed in the air-cooling tower, is proposed for the power supply of post-shutdown monitoring instruments. To verify the feasibility of practical implementation, the dynamical model of this newly designed RHEGS including the dynamics of PRHRS, windmill, rotor as well as doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) are all given. Then, both steady-state and transient verification for the RHEGS of a nuclear heating reactor NHR200-II plant with a rated thermal power of 200 MWth is carried out, which shows that the output active power of RHEGS can be 20∼30kW which is about 1% the residual heat flux and can fully meet the power requirements of post-shutdown monitoring instruments.