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Feasibility of a High Temperature Nuclear Reactor as back up system for Wind power
| Auteur | B.Boer, TU Delft |
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6-01-3-51-26.pdf |
| Datum | mei 2004 |
| Classificatie | 6.01.3.51/26 (VEILIGHEID - REACTOREN - NIEUWE GENERATIES - HTR) |
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Uit de publicatie:
Feasibility of a High Temperature Nuclear
Reactor as back up system for Wind power
Report no. ET 2150
B.Boer
Faculty of Design,
Construction and Production
Delft University of Technology
Delft, The Netherlands
May 2004
M.Sc Thesis, Delft University of Technology B. Boer
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M.Sc Thesis, Delft University of Technology B. Boer
Foreword
This report presents the final thesis of the Master of Science program in Mechanical
Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, performed at the section Energy
Technology of the faculty Design, Construction and Production.
I would like to thank Prof. Verkooijen for his guidance during the final stage of the
master program.
I would also like to thank all the people who helped and encouraged me in creating
this thesis.
Brian Boer
Delft, May 2004
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M.Sc Thesis, Delft University of Technology B. Boer
Summary
The Dutch energy supply must make a significant contribution to a CO2 less energy
production in the world. Together with a world wide increasing power demand this is
a challenging problem for the future. One way of meeting this challenge is electricity
production by wind energy with a High Temperature Nuclear Reactor (HTR) as a
back up system. The dynamical behaviour of the energy production by a large off
shore wind farm requires that the HTR must be flexible in the amount of energy it
produces. The question is whether the reactor core of the HTR is capable of
adjusting its power output in a fast manner. Besides the question of the technical
feasibility of the HTR-wind combination, the question arises whether this combination
is co