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ICONE23-2109 DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A HEAT EXCHANGER NETWORK FOR A CO-GENERATION SMR TO VARIOUS THERMAL UTILIZATION APPLICATIONS

2015· article· en· W2721404393 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE) · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicProcess Optimization and Integration
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHeat exchangerProcess engineeringNuclear engineeringEnvironmental scienceEngineeringMechanical engineering

Abstract

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Small modular nuclear reactor (SMR), with 300-400MWe electricity output, is an innovative design concept for nuclear power plant. It has some merits over large nuclear power plants, such as lower initial capital investment, flexibility, enhanced safety and security, etc. In previous applications, the balance of plant (BOP) system of the SMR was designed for supplying just electricity. In this study, the co-generation SMR which supplies both electricity and heat is under investigation. The heat exchanger network, mainly consisting of the BOP heat exchanger, water pump, and the heat exchangers that deliver heat to the thermal utilization (TU) applications, must operate in an efficient way to keep the overall system costs low. In this paper, a heat exchanger network for all end users which require the same or similar quality of energy is investigated. Numerical model for heat exchanger networks is built on the TRNSYS simulation software. Sensitivity studies are performed to estimate the energy efficiency and exergy efficiency of the whole heat exchanger network under different design and operating conditions (i.e. different temperatures, flow rates and heat exchanger effectiveness). Important design and operating parameters, which significantly impact the performance of the network, are evaluated and presented.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.155
Threshold uncertainty score0.406

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.127
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.154 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it