Optimal design of the structure and settings of nuclear HTR thermodynamic cycles

A thermal integration method has been used by Framatome-ANP since 2001 in order to optimize thermodynamic cycles (cogeneration and combined cycles) coupled to new nuclear high temperature reactors. This method allows the design of complex thermodynamic cycles that comply to a large number of industrial constraints, without any a priori assumption on the structure of the internal heat exchanger network.