Dynamic modelling of flexible dispatch in a novel nuclear-solar integrated energy system with thermal energy storage

Rigby, Aidan; Wagner, Michael J; Lindley, Ben

doi:10.1016/j.anucene.2024.110534

Annals of Nuclear Energy

2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2024.110534

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Dynamic modelling of flexible dispatch in a novel nuclear-solar integrated energy system with thermal energy storage

Aidan Rigby,

Michael J Wagner,

Ben Lindley

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Siting Analysis of a Solar-Nuclear-Desalination Integrated Energy System

Raymond,

Omitaomu,

Franzese

et al. 2024

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Nuclear power is typically deployed as a baseload generator. Increased penetration of variable renewables motivates combining nuclear and renewable technologies into Integrated Energy Systems (IES) to improve dispatchability, component synergies and, through cogeneration, address multiple markets. However, combining multiple energy resources heavily depends on the proper selection of each system’s location and design limitations. In this paper, co-siting options for IES that couple nuclear and concentrating solar power (CSP) with thermal desalination are investigated. A comprehensive siting analysis is performed that utilizes global information survey data to determine possible co-siting options for nuclear and solar thermal generation in the United States. Viable co-siting options are distributed across the Southwestern U.S., with the greatest concentration of siting options in the southern Great Plains, although siting with higher solar direct normal irradiance is possible in other states such as Arizona and New Mexico. Brackish water desalination is also attractive across the southwest U.S. due to high water stress, but for brackish water desalination reverse osmosis (an electricity driven process) is most cost- and energy-efficient, which does not require co-siting with the thermal generator. The most attractive state for nuclear and thermal desalination (which is more attractive when using seawater) is Texas, although other areas may become attractive as water stress increases over the coming decades. Co-siting of all CSP and thermal desalination is challenging as attractive CSP sites are not coastal.

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Siting Analysis of a Solar-Nuclear-Desalination Integrated Energy System

Raymond,

Omitaomu,

Franzese

et al. 2024

JNE

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Dynamic modelling of flexible dispatch in a novel nuclear-solar integrated energy system with thermal energy storage

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Siting Analysis of a Solar-Nuclear-Desalination Integrated Energy System

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