Conceptual Design of HP-STMCs Space Reactor Power System for 110 kWe

El‐Genk, Mohamed S.; Tournier, Jean‐Michel

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“…Since then, considerable efforts have been invested into heat pipe and thermosyphon development, and have resulted in broad applications. Many of these applications are related to space technology (El-Genk and Tournier, 2004;Elliot et al, 2003;Gibson et al, 2013; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2015.05.026 0306-4549/Ó 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Walker et al, 2013;Wright et al, 2005), thermal storage (Caruso et al, 1989;Zalba et al, 2003), solar energy (Chien et al, 2011;Mathioulakis and Belessiotis, 2002;Mertol et al, 1981), cooling of gas turbine and electronic devices (Japikse, 1973).…”

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Investigation of a long term passive cooling system using two-phase thermosyphon loops for the nuclear reactor spent fuel pool

et al. 2015

Annals of Nuclear Energy

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Investigation of a long term passive cooling system using two-phase thermosyphon loops for the nuclear reactor spent fuel pool

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Annals of Nuclear Energy

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“…Three concepts of the Scalable AMTEC Integrated Reactor Space Power System (SAIRS) with high power (111 kWe) were developed by El-Genk and Tournier (El-Genk and Tournier, 2004). They also proposed a 110 kWe Heat Pipes-Segmented Thermoelectric Module Converters (HP-STMCs) Space Reactor Power system (SRPS) and demonstrated its performance (El-Genk and Tournier, 2004a;El-Genk and Tournier, 2004b). The compact structure of the heat pipe reactor makes it suitable to be applied in a moving condition (Yan et al, 2020).…”

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“…The HPS, HBS, and HOMER were all designed below 100 kWe (Houts et al, 1996a;Houts et al, 1996b;Poston, 2001). The designed power of several heat pipe reactors were proposed to around 100 kWe to meet the demand of the increased mission time and increased distance between the target planet and the earth, e.g., the one designed for the Martian/Lunar surface exploration (Bushman et al, 2004), the SAIRS (El-Genk and Tournier, 2004), and the HP-STMCs (El-Genk and Tournier, 2004a;El-Genk and Tournier, 2004b). For remote installations, the power is identified by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Defense (DOD) to be between 1 and 10 MWe (Sterbentz et al, 2017a).…”

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Neutronic Design for Heat Pipe Reactor With Annular and Accident Tolerant Fuels

Cai

Chen

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Front. Energy Res.

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Several core designs of heat pipe reactors with megawatt power were proposed for extreme environments, such as the deep space, the deep sea, and the earthquake locations. However, the existing designs have either the difficulty of manufacture or potential issues of transport. In the present work, a heat pipe design is proposed with an annular fuel element to replace the cylindrical and hexagon fuel elements. In addition, candidate accident tolerant fuels, such as the UN and U3Si2 fuels, are implemented. The neutronic properties of the new reactor design are systematically investigated by the OpenMC Monte Carlo code simulations. It is found that BeO presents a better effect of reducing the axial power deviation than Al2O3. The criticality of the proposed design is verified by two configurations of control drums. The depletion calculations show that each design can operate for decades of years.

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“…Conceptual designs of 100 kWe class SRPSs (El-Genk and Tournier, 2004) were developed in which the heat from the nuclear reactor is radiatively coupled to Segmented Thermoelectric Multicouples (STMC), which operate at a hot junction temperature of 1265 K. The cold junction temperature was optimized at about 723K to provide a minimum power system mass design point based on a heat pipe radiator with C-C armor to protect against potential meteorites impact.…”

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Segmented Thermoelectric Multicouple Converter Technology Development

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Johnson²,

Fleurial³

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AIP Conference Proceedings

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The primary objectives of the segmented thermoelectric multicouple converter (STMC) technology development effort are: to define a conceptual design for a passive, low mass (3000 kg), long life (15 years) thermoelectric advanced Space Reactor Power System that provides 100kWe 400 Volt dc power for a 6000 volt dc electric propulsion system, to prepare a preliminary design of the power conversion system and to prepare technology development plan to advance power conversion system technology to TRL 6. The SRPS consists of a heat pipe cooled reactor radiatively couple to high efficiency solid-state segmented thermoelectric multicouple converters which are conductively coupled to a low mass heat pipe radiator. The SRPS conceptual design as well as the Power Conversion System preliminary design is complete and their description reported in this paper CP746, Space Technology and Applications International Forum-STAIF 2005, edited by M. S. El-Genk

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Conceptual Design of HP-STMCs Space Reactor Power System for 110 kWe

Cited by 50 publications

References 12 publications

Investigation of a long term passive cooling system using two-phase thermosyphon loops for the nuclear reactor spent fuel pool

Investigation of a long term passive cooling system using two-phase thermosyphon loops for the nuclear reactor spent fuel pool

Neutronic Design for Heat Pipe Reactor With Annular and Accident Tolerant Fuels

Segmented Thermoelectric Multicouple Converter Technology Development

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