NEUP CINR-18-15602: Modeling and Experimental Verification of Thermal Energy Storage Systems to Enable Load Following Capability for Nuclear Reactors

The proposed work aims at integrating new thermal energy storage (TES) models developed in Modelica with ongoing nuclear-renewable hybrid energy systems (NRHES) modeling efforts, and perform optimization in RAVEN, to evaluate the economic potential and advantages of the new process designs over baseload electricity production. It also aims to scale, design, test and optimize the TES systems to be later integrated with the Idaho National Laboratory’s DETAIL

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Field	Value
Awarded Institution	University of Idaho
PI	Richard Christensen