Desalination in nuclear power plants / Gustavo Alonso, Edmundo Del Valle, Jose Ramon Ramirez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alonso, Gustavo, author.

Del Valle, Edmundo, author.

Ramirez, Jose Ramon, 1958- author.

Series:

Woodhead Publishing in energy.

Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear saline water conversion plants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Duxford, England ; Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Kidlington, Oxford : Woodhead Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

Desalination in Nuclear Power Plants presents the latest research on a variety of nuclear desalination techniques for different nuclear reactor systems; it includes also several aspects regarding competitiveness, sustainability, safety, and licensing process.

Contents:

Intro

Desalination in Nuclear Power Plants

Copyright

Contents

Authors' biography

Preface

Overview

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Nuclear reactors

2.1. Power generation

2.2. Deployed fission reactors

2.3. Small modular reactors

2.4. Nuclear desalination experience

2.4.1. Japan experience

2.4.2. Kazakhstan experience

2.4.3. India experience

2.4.4. Russia experience

2.4.5. The United States of America experience

2.4.6. Pakistan experience

2.4.7. Reverse osmosis experience using nuclear energy

2.5. Nuclear power applications

Chapter 3: Desalination plants

3.1. Membrane desalination processes

3.1.1. Reverse osmosis

3.1.1.1. Permeate flux

3.1.1.2. Salt rejection

3.1.1.3. Recovery rate

3.1.2. Electrodialysis

3.2. Thermal desalination processes

3.2.1. Multistage flash distillation

3.2.2. Multieffect distillation

3.2.3. Vapor compression (VC): thermal (TVC) and mechanical (MVC)

3.3. Hybrid processes

3.4. Balance equations

3.4.1. Mass balance

3.4.2. Salt balance

3.4.3. Balance for final brine flasher

3.4.4. Mass and heat balance for condenser

3.4.5. Energy balance for the condenser

Chapter 4: Coupling of nuclear reactors and desalination plants

4.1. Nuclear desalination power plants

4.2. Coupling nuclear reactors to desalination plants

4.3. Coupling for cogeneration of water and electricity

4.4. Safety aspects of nuclear desalination

4.5. Environmental and performance aspects

Chapter 5: Optimization methods

5.1. Introduction to optimization

5.2. Multiobjective optimization problems

5.3. Genetic algorithm

5.4. Tabu search

Chapter 6: Thermoeconomic analysis

6.1. Energy levelized cost analysis

6.2. Thermodynamic analysis

6.3. Thermoeconomic analysis

6.3.1. Pressurized water nuclear plant.

6.3.2. Multistage flashing distillation plant (MSF)

6.3.2.1. Brine heating section

6.3.3. Multieffect distillation: Turbo vapor compressor plant (MED-TVC)

6.3.4. Multistep distillation process

6.3.5. Economic analysis

6.4. Objective functions

Chapter 7: Competitiveness and sustainability

7.1. Economic aspects

7.1.1. Bonds

7.1.2. Stocks

7.1.3. Taxes

7.1.4. Depreciation

7.1.5. Exim banks

7.1.6. Potable water cost

7.2. Environmental issues

7.3. Current and prospective projects

7.3.1. Saudi Arabia

7.3.2. China

7.3.3. Russia

7.4. Cases studies

7.4.1. PWR exergy analysis

7.4.2. MSF exergy analysis

7.4.3. PWR secondary circuit extraction point analysis

7.4.4. Optimization case

7.5. Case study

7.6. Comparison with fossil technologies

7.7. Comparison of solar and wind power technologies

Chapter 8: Safety and licensing

8.1. Safety considerations

8.2. Applied regulations

8.3. Nuclear reactor licensing

8.4. Cogeneration issues

8.4.1. Potential radioactive contamination of the potable water produced

8.4.2. Potential interaction effects due to the coupling

8.4.3. Possible environmental impacts due to brine discharge

8.4.4. Potential impact due to intake and outfall shared structures

8.4.5. The potential impacts due to the adaptation of systems in stand-alone nuclear reactors with desalination plants

8.5. Licensing issues for cogeneration

8.6. Licensing regulations for cogeneration

Abbreviations

General

MSF nomenclature

Greek letters

MED nomenclature

Greek symbols

Dimensionless numbers

Subindexes

Nomenclature for the PWR exergonomic analysis

Subscripts

Bibliographies

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780128226445

0128226447

OCLC:

1150171336