The IAEA DEEP desalination economic model: A critical review

Kavvadias, Konstantinos; Khamis, I.

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2010.02.032

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“…The ORC can be used because an organic vapor can have a boiling point lower than water with the same operating pressure. The MED energy requirement was calculated using the desalination economic evaluation program software developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, and is listed in Table 14 [24].…”

Section: Organic Vapor Optionmentioning

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Feasibility study of a dedicated nuclear desalination system: Low-pressure Inherent heat sink Nuclear Desalination plant (LIND)

Kim

et al. 2015

Nuclear Engineering and Technology

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Available online xxxKeywords: Dedicated nuclear desalination system High-temperature gas-cooled reactor Inherent safety feature Intermediate heat transport system Water-cooled reactor a b s t r a c t Q1In this paper, we suggest the conceptual design of a water-cooled reactor system for a lowpressure inherent heat sink nuclear desalination plant that applies the safety-related design concepts of high temperature gas-cooled reactors to a water-cooled reactor for inherent and passive safety features. Through a scoping analysis, we found that the current low-pressure inherent heat sink nuclear desalination plant design satisfied several essential thermalehydraulic and neutronic design requirements. In a thermalehydraulic analysis using an analytical method based on the WootoneEpstein correlation, we checked the possibility of safely removing decay heat through the steel containment even if all the active safety systems failed. In a neutronic analysis using the Monte Carlo N-particle transport code, we estimated a cycle length of approximately 6 years under 200 MW th and 4.5% enrichment. The very long cycle length and simple safety features minimize the burdens from the operation, maintenance, and spent-fuel management, with a positive impact on the economic feasibility. Finally, because a nuclear reactor should not be directly coupled to a desalination system to prevent the leakage of radioactive material into the desalinated water, three types of intermediate systems were studied: a steam producing system, a hot water system, and an organic Rankine cycle system.

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Section: Organic Vapor Optionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feasibility study of a dedicated nuclear desalination system: Low-pressure Inherent heat sink Nuclear Desalination plant (LIND)

Kim

et al. 2015

Nuclear Engineering and Technology

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“…For the evaluation of nuclear desalination system, IAEA has developed a nuclear desalination system program named as deep .…”

Section: Computer‐based Desalination Economic Evaluation Programmentioning

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Theoretical calculation simulation studies of ABV nuclear reactor coupled with desalination system

Khan

Danish

Haider

et al. 2015

Int. J. Energy Res.

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Summary In this paper, research has been conducted on the floating type nuclear power plant named as ABV reactor which is designed for district heating, power, and sea water desalination by OKBM facility at Russia. This reactor was tested under different thermal loads during the designing phase, and three modules have been investigated. Theoretical calculations and simulation studies have been performed on these three modules having specifications as ABV‐6M with 47MWth, ABV‐6 with 38MWth, and ABV‐3 with 18MWth.The results obtained from these modules have been calculated mathematically and verified by simulation. We have compared the originally derived data of ABV desalination system with our theoretical and simulation analysis. The results from two desalination techniques including RO and RO + MED have been calculated and are presented in this paper with details. The results obtained from both analysis show that the efficiency of ABV nuclear reactor desalination system increases with the decrease in corresponding water cost ratio. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…3.2). Figure 13 shows how MED's equivalent electric power consumption 16 varies with the top brine temperature (TBT). Conversion from W th to W e is based, in this case, on the W-cost of heat (WCH).…”

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“…min, mid, and max: minimal, medium and maximal specific electric consumption of the SWRO process as reported in literature. 16 Electric equivalent of the thermal power supplied by the nuclear reactor, plus, electric power consumption internal to the process. 17 Raising the TBT exposes the plant to severe corrosion and scaling problems.…”

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Energetic and economic cost of nuclear heat − impact on the cost of desalination

Dardour

Safa

2017

EPJ Nuclear Sci. Technol.

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Abstract. An exploratory study has been carried out to evaluate the cost of heat supplied by a pressurized water reactor type of nuclear reactors to thermal desalination processes. In the context of this work, simplified models have been developed to describe the thermodynamics of power conversion, the energetics of multi-effect evaporation (MED), and the costs of electricity and heat cogenerated by the dual-purpose power plant. Application of these models show that, contrary to widespread belief, (nuclear-powered) MED and seawater reverse osmosis are comparable in terms of energy effectiveness. Process heat can be produced, in fact, by a relatively small increase in the core power. As fuel represents just a fraction of the cost of nuclear electricity, the increase in fuel-related expenses is expected to have limited impact on power generation economics.

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The IAEA DEEP desalination economic model: A critical review

Cited by 54 publications

References 10 publications

Feasibility study of a dedicated nuclear desalination system: Low-pressure Inherent heat sink Nuclear Desalination plant (LIND)

Feasibility study of a dedicated nuclear desalination system: Low-pressure Inherent heat sink Nuclear Desalination plant (LIND)

Theoretical calculation simulation studies of ABV nuclear reactor coupled with desalination system

Energetic and economic cost of nuclear heat − impact on the cost of desalination

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