Applicability of plate heat exchanger to plant cooling water systems in pressure water reactor

Advanced Pressurized Reactor 1400(APR 1400), which is a standard evolutionary Advanced Light Water Reactor(ALWR), has been developed from 1992 as one of long-term government project(G-7). The APR-1400 is designed to operate at the rated output of 4000MWt to produce an electric power output of around 1450MWe. Due to the increased electric power, in nuclear power plant huge quantities of heat are generated in the thermo-dynamic process used for producing electrical energy. So, there is considerately additional cooling, heat transfer area and increased cooling water of heat exchanger which take care of the different smaller cooling duties within the nuclear power plant. We review applying to PHE instead of shell-and tube heat exchanger. In this paper, we describe the major design features of PHE, comparison between a PHE and a shell-and-tube heat exchanger, and then applicability of plate heat exchanger in nuclear power plant component cooling water systems