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Design and optimization of power conversion system for a steady state CFETR power plant

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  • Khan, Muhammad Salman
  • Bin, Guo
  • Xuebing, Peng
  • Song, Yunthao

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A promising magnetic fusion steady state reactor is Chinese Fusion Engineering Testing Reactor (CFETR) and a different power conversion system is required than tokamak reactor. The control and utilization of high outlet temperature and thermal power generated by the fusion reactor efficiently are the main challenges in the field of thermo-fusion technology. An efficient and optimized power conversion system is an urge for the thermo-fusion energy system with a candidate working fluid under high temperature and pressure. Five cycle topologies based on the Brayton cycle have been designed such as multi stage expansion and recompression cycle with intercooling, recompression cycle with intercooling, partial expansion with multistage compression, partial expansion and partial recompression with cooling across range of turbine and compressor inlet temperatures. Brayton cycle with different system configurations have been simulated with He-gas and supercritical Carbon Dioxide (CO2) to conceive high outlet temperature of CFETR about 500 °C and thermal power of 200 MWth for better thermal performance by using REFPROP, EES and analytical model has been developed with MATLAB. The supercritical CO2 has better thermal performance about 36.18 % as compared to He-gas has 29.81 % under same thermal conditions. The Schematic-I with addition of preheat and recompression enhance the thermal performance about 2 % and has been proposed for CFETR. The effect of change in pressure of the system, effect of the working fluid, isentropic efficiency, heat rate and back to work ratio on the thermal performance and network output have been analyzed and optimized based on analytical model with the MATLAB. The system net power is increased from 69.20 MW to 79.71 MW, heat rejected by the system is decreased from 134.46 MW to 127.06 MW and thermal performance is increased about 34.62 %–39.85 % with pressure from 24 MPa to 28 MPa. Using multi stage expansion and recompression cycle with intercooling instead of other topologies can improve the thermal performance up to 6.1 % depends upon the operation conditions and working fluid. The heat rate of the system decreased while back work ratio increased with the pressure and it reveal that calculations are correct.

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  • Khan, Muhammad Salman & Bin, Guo & Xuebing, Peng & Song, Yunthao, 2024. "Design and optimization of power conversion system for a steady state CFETR power plant," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 308(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:308:y:2024:i:c:s0360544224027683
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.132994
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