HTR-Based Power Plants’ Performance Analysis Applied on Conventional Combined Cycles

Table 4

Losses due to internal irreversibilities assumed for the case studies.

	CBC-reg/He	RC-CO2	He/NH3 (no reg)	He/CO2	He/C2H6 (no reh)	He/H2O (no reg)	He/Xe (no reg)
in HTR (%)	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
in HE (%)	2	2	2	2	2	2	3
in HRE (%)			2	2	2	2	3
regenerator (%)	2	2		2	2
IHE (%)	97	92	92	92	92	92	92
HR (%)			92	92	92	92	92
regenerator (%)	92	92		90	92
HTR-IHE (K)	50	80	50	50	50	50	50
Reg () (K)	20	20		20	20
in BC/RC (K)		—	40	40	40	40	40
Iη BC turbine (%)	94		94	94	94	94	94
Iη BC compressor (%)	88		88	88	88	88	88
Iη RC pump (%)		90	90	90	90	90	90
Iη RC turbine (%)		92	92	92	92	92	92