WO2013132132A2 - Procedimiento para mejorar el rendimiento del ciclo térmico en las centrales nucleares - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method of application in the energy industry, and more specifically in nuclear power plants intended for the generation of electricity in which the reactor primary cooling circuit fluid is water (or heavy water). This procedure finds application in those nuclear power plants whose primary circuit works with high temperature and pressurized water (PWR) and in boiling water plants (BWR).
- PWR high temperature and pressurized water
- BWR boiling water plants
- Saturated or slightly humid steam of relatively high pressure is generated (generally between 55 and 78 bar), called main steam or live steam to be expanded in a steam turbine, which is usually a condensation turbine with overheating and several bodies.
- the steam is expanded inside the turbine, yielding part of its thermal energy, producing mechanical energy which, in turn, is transformed into electrical energy by a generator coupled to the turbine shaft.
- a cycle of these characteristics can be seen in Figure 1.
- the expansion process is divided into two phases. In the first phase, the steam is expanded in the high pressure body of the turbine (HP), from which it leaves with a moisture content of the order or greater than 10%. To remove most of the moisture, it is usual practice to pass through a moisture separator (MS).
- HP high pressure body of the turbine
- MS moisture separator
- the moisture separator After the moisture separator, it is reheated to achieve a temperature higher than that of saturation (between 50 and 80 e C above) before expanding it, in a second phase, in the medium or low pressure body (LP).
- LP medium or low pressure body
- overheating between the two phases of the expansion is done in two stages.
- the first superheater (RH1) which is located downstream of the high pressure turbine outlet and the moisture separator, is a steam-steam exchanger fed by an extraction of the high pressure turbine.
- RH2 also of the steam-steam type
- the steam leaving the first superheater is reheated with a moderate fraction of live steam.
- the moisture separator, the first reheater and the second reheater are integrated into a single device consisting of an outer casing, within which the moisture separator and the tubular beams of the reheaters are circulated through which the live steam and the steam from the turbine extraction.
- the steam coming from the first expansion of the turbine circulates inside the housing and outside the tubular beams of the superheaters.
- the steam at the outlet of the reheating is called superheated or simply reheated steam.
- the objective of overheating in these plants is to obtain a lower moisture content in the last stages of the expansion of the low pressure turbine, providing greater protection against the formation of high-speed drops that would damage the blades of the turbine, thus decreasing its availability.
- a small increase in the efficiency of the thermal cycle is achieved.
- the steam condenses in a condenser cooled by a relatively cold fluid, be it seawater, water from a river or water from the cooling towers, depending on the characteristics and location of the plant.
- a relatively cold fluid be it seawater, water from a river or water from the cooling towers, depending on the characteristics and location of the plant.
- the condensed steam (or simply the condensate as it is usually known) is pumped to the degasser in most of the plants, after passing through condensate preheaters (three or four, depending on the plant), which are connected casing-tube exchangers cascaded and fed by different extractions of the steam turbine, which raise the temperature of the condensate.
- the degasser where the non-condensable gases dissolved in the condensate are removed, is also fed by an extraction of the steam turbine.
- the feedwater is pumped back to the reactor or steam generator, depending on the type of plant, by means of the feed water pumps, after passing through the feed water pre-heaters (two or three, depending on the plant), which are also casing-tube exchangers, cascaded and fed by turbine extractions steam.
- the objective of the pre-heaters is to produce a more regenerative cycle, and therefore, more efficient.
- nuclear power plants require wet steam turbines since, since they do not have superheated steam at the inlet of the high body and provide a low reheat in the low pressure, they operate with steam that reaches a higher moisture content.
- the drops of water contained in the steam cause a drop in the performance of the steam turbine when it hits the blades, as well as erosion in those blades, and high vibrations and tensions in the last stages of expansion.
- these turbines operate with higher mass flow rates of steam than the turbines of a cycle with high superheat and overheating (steam has less thermal energy due to unit of mass).
- the temperature increase available for steam overheating is determined by the temperature difference between the primary circuit and the main steam.
- This difference is relatively small, so that, including the necessary temperature jumps in the auxiliary circuit exchangers (primary circuit exchanger - auxiliary circuit and auxiliary circuit exchanger - main steam), the increase in steam temperature is limited and thus the main advantages of overheating and overheating: the increase in efficiency of the cycle, and decrease in moisture content in the exhaust of the high pressure turbine, preventing the formation of drops at high speed that would damage the blades.
- the invention aims to alleviate the technical problems mentioned in the previous section. To this end, it proposes a procedure to increase the efficiency of electricity generation in nuclear power plants under pressure, comprising the steps of: superheating saturated or slightly damp steam from the steam generator before entering a turbine; reheating said steam with an extraction of the high pressure turbine and reheating again using live steam from the reactor; the steam reheated in the previous stage is reheated again, exchanging heat with a thermal fluid at a higher temperature; This superheated steam is expanded in the low body of the steam turbine, then condensed and recirculated to the steam generators, after heating with water vapor from turbine extractions.
- auxiliary thermal fluid circuit Overheating in the first stage and overheating before the low turbine are performed by an auxiliary thermal fluid circuit, with the currents for overheating and overheating running in parallel.
- the exchange with the auxiliary circuit can be carried out by means of pressurized water (at a higher temperature) coming from a second auxiliary circuit that derives part of the water from the reactor to an exchanger.
- the source or sources of energy used for the auxiliary circuit of overheating and overheating may be external to the plant, preferably (but not necessarily) renewable sources.
- FIG. 1 shows the schematic configuration of a light pressure water nuclear power plant (PWR).
- PWR light pressure water nuclear power plant
- Figure 2 shows a configuration according to the invention in which part of the thermal energy of the reactor is used for the superheating of the main steam and the superheating of the superheated steam.
- Figure 3.- is a diagram of the configuration of a PWR plant according to an example of embodiment that directly uses the thermal fluid of a solar field for the superheating of the main steam and the superheating of the superheated steam
- Figure 4.- shows a diagram of the PWR configuration according to an embodiment that uses the energy of a solar field, by means of an auxiliary circuit of water under pressure, to superheat the main steam and reheat the superheated steam.
- Figure 5.- shows a configuration in which the energy from two different sources of heat placed in series is used to superheat the main steam and reheat the superheated steam by means of a single auxiliary circuit.
- the process of the invention comprises a stage within the thermal cycle that consists in increasing the degree of steam overheating, so that the performance of the medium and / or low pressure body of the steam turbine is increased, also reducing humidity contained in the steam in the last stages of the expansion, with the consequent effect of reducing the impact at high speeds of the drops in the blades.
- the associated problems of vibration and wear thereof are thus reduced and the availability of the steam turbine and, consequently, that of the entire nuclear power plant increases.
- the process also includes a steam overheating stage upon arrival at the steam turbine, thereby increasing the thermal energy of the live steam per unit mass and the thermal cycle performance.
- the invention is applicable when one or more energy sources outside the plant's own reactor exist or can be built in the immediate vicinity of the plant, with a temperature of the hot spot higher than that of the water of the primary that comes out hot. and at high reactor pressure.
- energy sources could be of renewable, fossil or even nuclear origin.
- the procedure to increase the energy efficiency of the thermal cycles of nuclear power plants comprises the following stages ( Figure 3): a) The saturated or slightly humid steam produced in the steam generator, after the feed water is heated in A regenerative cycle through which the steam generator is pumped under pressure is superheated in a superheater (SH1) by means of a heat exchange heat fluid heated in turn from one or several external heat sources.
- the fluid can be pressurized water or any other fluid, as long as it is at a higher temperature than saturated live steam.
- step b The steam obtained in step b is dried by at least one moisture separator (MS).
- step c The intermediate pressure steam dried in step c is reheated in a first superheater fed by an extraction of the high pressure turbine (RH1).
- step d The steam reheated in the first instance in step d is further reheated in an exchanger (RH2) in which a portion of the live vapor diverted before the superheater (SH1) of stage a) acts as a hot fluid.
- RH2 exchanger
- SH1 superheater
- stage a a portion of the live vapor diverted before the superheater (SH1) of stage a) acts as a hot fluid.
- f) The reheated steam in the second instance is further reheated in a thermal fluid-steam exchanger (RH3 in Figure 3), in which the heating fluid is a thermal fluid (the same from the stage to which it in turn receives the energy from external sources (the same or different than in section a)
- the superheated steam obtained in step f is expanded in the low pressure body of the steam turbine directly.
- the expansion can be done in a medium pressure body at the outlet of which it passes to the low turbine, in which case the inlet pressure to the latter is lower than that of the turbines that lack this medium pressure stage. All this depending on the configuration of the turbine with which the plant is equipped.
- the condensed water of the secondary used to generate the saturated steam of the stage a is heated by using a plurality of steam extractions from the turbine to exchange heat with said secondary water and achieve its heating before being pumped into the or steam generators.
- the energy provided from outside the nuclear power plant to improve the quality of steam by overheating and reheating the steam can be obtained from any of the sources listed below or similar: 1) Renewable energy: Solar thermal energy with collectors parabolic cylinder or central tower with heliostats or other similar systems, being able to use thermal storage systems such as molten or solid salts, energy from urban solid waste, biomass, forestry or crops made for that purpose, solid fuels , liquids and gases from biomass, geothermal energy, etc.
- Non-renewable energy Energy from industrial processes: refineries and other chemical industries, steel and metallurgical plants, thermal power generating plants with simultaneous production of thermal energy; plants dedicated to generate thermal fluid from fossil fuels.
- a difference and improvement over the prior art that uses external heat sources to superheat or reheat the steam is the use of an auxiliary circuit of any thermal fluid, which allows several heat sources to be connected in parallel or in series, and that keeps the nuclear circuit isolated from the source or external heat sources.
- this configuration allows the inclusion of heat sources from renewable energies, such as solar energy or biomass.
- the invention will only be applicable to nuclear power plants with pressurized water reactors (PWR), with water or heavy water.
- PWR pressurized water reactors
- the process for increasing the energy efficiency of thermal cycles of nuclear power plants with such pressurized water reactors comprises the following steps shown in the figure
- a part of the water of the pressurized primary and heated by heat transfer in the reactor is directed to a water exchanger of the auxiliary thermal primary fluid (A-A) located in the containment building, the rest is directed to the generators of steam, where it circulates through a bundle of tubes to exchange its thermal energy with the secondary water that comes from the steam turbine after being heated in a regenerative cycle, from which the steam generator is pumped under pressure to transform it into saturated steam or slightly damp
- auxiliary thermal fluid that is heated in the exchanger mentioned in the previous stage (A-A) is divided into two streams: the first one overheats the main steam (see section c), and the second one reheats the superheated steam (see section h)
- step d The steam obtained in step d is dried by at least one moisture separator.
- step e The intermediate pressure steam dried in step e is reheated in a first superheater fed by an extraction of the high pressure turbine (RH1).
- step f) The steam reheated in step f) is further reheated in a second superheater fed with live steam from the steam generator (RH2).
- the superheated steam in the second instance is reheated in a third superheater (RH3), heated by the second auxiliary thermal fluid stream of section b.
- RH3 third superheater
- the superheated steam obtained in step e is expanded in the low pressure body of the steam turbine directly.
- the expansion can be done in a medium pressure body at the outlet from which it passes to the low turbine, in which case the inlet pressure to the latter is lower than that of the turbines that lack this medium pressure stage .
- auxiliary thermal fluid of the sections cyh once its heat has been transferred to the live steam and reheated respectively, returns to the water exchanger of the primary auxiliary thermal fluid (AA) to be heated again.
- the traditional configuration of a light pressure nuclear power plant ( Figure 1) is compared with the configuration of a light pressure water plant according to the invention, with an external solar-type heat source in the circuit auxiliary (figure 4).
- the saturated main steam (78bar) expands in the high-pressure body of the steam turbine to a pressure of 1 1 bar, reaching an outlet humidity of 15.2%.
- a first reheating steam extraction high - pressure turbine and a second reheating main steam After passing through the moisture separator, a first reheating steam extraction high - pressure turbine and a second reheating main steam reaches conditions 10,47 and 278 bar, 5 and C temperature before entering the turbine of low pressure steam, where it expands definitively to the pressure of 0.05 bar, with a humidity of 13.2%.
- the superheating and reheating of the steam will be carried out by means of heat exchangers through which high-pressure hot water streams (325 e C and 140 bar) will flow from the exchangers of the adjacent solar field.
- the stream of pressurized water that reaches the superheater gives its heat to the main steam, decreasing its temperature to 298 e C.
- the main steam reaches an overheating of 7 e C before entering the discharge body steam turbine pressure, where it expands to a pressure of 1 1 .2 bar, reaching a moisture content of 13.5%.
- a first superheat with extraction steam of the high-pressure body of the steam turbine and a second superheat with main steam is reheated again in a third superheater with the other stream of water under pressure, reaching the steam conditions 10.47bar and 300.5 e C.
- the steam then expands in the turbine to the pressure of 0.05bar, reaching a humidity of 12.2%.
- the pressurized hot water streams once their heat is transferred, are mixed and returned to the solar heat source, where they are heated by thermal fluid from the adjacent solar field, again reaching the temperature of 325 e C.
- the parallel configuration of the two pressurized water streams allows both the superheated steam and the superheated steam to reach the maximum available temperature of the external source that is, with the necessary temperature jumps of the intermediate auxiliary exchangers, about 300 e C
- the temperature of the pressurized water stream would decrease, therefore, the maximum temperature available for the superheater would be lower. This would cause the temperature of the superheated steam before the turbine entry to be less than 300 e C and therefore, the increase in efficiency and the decrease in humidity will also be lower.
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