Heat transfer systems for novel nuclear power plant designs

This article focuses on designing or modifying heat exchangers found in the auxiliary systems of any power plant. The basic premise is to show that the software provides a one-stop solution for designing many types of heat transfer systems, where the interaction between various loops connected by heat exchangers can be assessed. The nuclear power plant industry is addressed as the quality control in the development of the software makes it most suitable for nuclear related applications. Moreover, the software discussed has the capability to do contaminant tracing, which could be very useful for nuclear contamination studies in designing specialized ventilation systems. To highlight the versatility of the software network approach it will be shown how to model any setup and kind of heat exchanger such as plate, tube-in-tube, liquid/gas, finned tube etc. Additionally, the Koeberg pressurized water reactor steam generator comparison and the THTR steam generator comparison are shown as examples.