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dc.contributor.author | Aunedi, M | - |
dc.contributor.author | Al Kindi, AA | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pantaleo, AM | - |
dc.contributor.author | Markides, CN | - |
dc.contributor.author | Strbac, G | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-31T20:34:11Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-10-31T20:34:11Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2023-06-09 | - |
dc.identifier | ORCID iD: Marko Aunedi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8195-7941 | - |
dc.identifier | 117257 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Aunedi, M. et al. (2023) 'System-driven design of flexible nuclear power plant configurations with thermal energy storage', Energy Conversion and Management, 291, 117257, pp. 1 - 14. doi: 10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117257. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0196-8904 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/27493 | - |
dc.description | Data availability: Data will be made available on request. | en_US |
dc.description | A shorter version of this paper has been presented during the 17th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) held in Paphos, Cyprus, 6-10 November 2022. | - |
dc.description.abstract | Copyright © 2023 The Author(s).. Nuclear power plants are expected to make an important contribution to the decarbonisation of electricity supply alongside variable renewable generation, especially if their operational flexibility is enhanced by coupling them with thermal energy storage. This paper presents a system modelling approach to identifying configurations of flexible nuclear plants that minimise the investment and operation costs in a decarbonised energy system, effectively proposing a system-driven design of flexible nuclear technology. Case studies presented in the paper explore the impact of system features on plant configuration choices. The results suggest that cost-efficient flexible nuclear configurations should adapt to the system they are located in. In the main low-carbon scenarios and assuming standard-size nuclear power plants (1,610 MWel), the lowest-cost system configuration included around 500 MWel of additional secondary generation capacity coupled to the nuclear power plants, with 4.5 GWhth of thermal storage capacity and a discharging duration of 2.2 h. Net system benefits per unit of flexible nuclear generation for the main scenarios were quantified at £29-33 m/yr for a wind-dominated system and £19-20 m/yr for a solar-dominated system. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [grant number EP/R045518/1] (IDLES Programme). | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 1 - 14 | - |
dc.format.medium | Print-Electronic | - |
dc.language | English | - |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | - |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | - |
dc.subject | flexible nuclear | en_US |
dc.subject | nuclear power | en_US |
dc.subject | power system flexibility | en_US |
dc.subject | system-driven design | en_US |
dc.subject | thermal energy storage | en_US |
dc.title | System-driven design of flexible nuclear power plant configurations with thermal energy storage | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117257 | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Energy Conversion and Management | - |
pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
pubs.volume | 291 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1879-2227 | - |
dc.rights.holder | The Author(s) | - |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers |
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