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Optimal power dispatch in nuclear cogeneration plants for electricity, water and hydrogen production: A parametric study

Rupsha Bhattacharyya

Abstract


Nuclear cogeneration projects where apart from electricity, valuable products like desalinated and purified water, hydrogen and oxygen gases from electrolysis of the water are produced are capable of providing water and energy security in developing and developed nations. They can also potentially become sources of additional revenue for the power plant operators. A simple approach using energy and economics data from published literature is used in this work to develop a model and a parametric search based solution algorithm by which the optimal dispatch of a given quantity of energy to the various co-located or cogeneration plants from a typical nuclear power reactor in India can be determined. The objective function for optimization is chosen to be the overall benefit to cost ratio of the cogeneration projects. The effect of energy cost, plant capital cost and target revenue from each product on the optimal fractions of energy to be provided to each plant is also studied.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jcep.v5i1.728

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