The trend of advanced nuclear power plant is regaining confidence around the globe because of their clean, relatively safe and reliable energy generation. As per World Nuclear Association, it covers around 10 % of world’s total electricity demand. From engineering perspective, operating these power stations close to their optimum efficiencies is of paramount importance. However, this objective is compromised due to several reasons, such as irreversibility, fouling and seasonal variation in cold water reservoir temperatures. One of the successful way to investigate these problems is through energy and exergy analysis. The aim of this study is to perform the thermodynamic analysis on an advanced HPR-1000 (Pressurized Water Reactor) nuclear power plant using Engineering Equation Solver (EES). The computational model is developed and validated based on the vendor provided design data. The thermal analysis has been carried out at normal power condition to evaluate the energy and exergy losses in major plant components. It further explains the impact of sea water temperature and fouling resistances variation on various performance parameters of plant and condenser. The results indicates that 70 % exergy destruction is calculated at the nuclear island side succeeded by steam generator and condenser. While the major energy loss of 1924 MW is estimated in the condenser at design conditions. The thermal efficiency reduced by 1.75 % while increase of 5.18 % in 2nd law efficiency is observed for varying sea water temperature from 5 to 35 °C. Condenser pressure, overall heat transfer coefficient and condenser exergetic efficiency are observed to exhibit a direct relation with cooling medium temperature. Conversely, these parameters decline with increment in fouling.
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