Thermal Analysis of Prospective Nuclear Power Plant Desalination Technologies Utilizing a Pressurized Water Reactor

The optimization and simulation of the proposed MSF, MED- TVC, and RO desalination units are utilized by MATLAB language software. The thermodynamic assessment of a cogeneration nuclear desalination plant that is used to create a connection between both of the proposed multi-effect desalination system and the pressurized water reactor is conducted through the application of the Thermodynamic Optimization Program for Desalination (DE-TOP). The entire potential connection measures of the nuclear energy generation plant together with the desalination unit are tested for the energy control of a nuclear desalination facility. The process of simulation indicated a decline in the performance ratio of the MED-TVC plant when the top brine temperature increases. Moreover, there is a direct upsurge in thermal performance ratio of the MSF system against the entire number of stages. Inside of the RO plant, an increase in the level of water permeation takes place when the temperature of the feed water is raised. Additionally, a comparison is drawn in the cogeneration system between several top output parameters, e.g. net efficiency, total power requirement, and power lost ratio. These parameters varied from 33.504 % to 33.545 %, 4.1 to 5.3 MW(e), 9 % to 26.2 %, respectively.