Nuclear engineering

Supercritical fluid

Physics

Organic chemistry

Heat exchanger

Combustion

Gas compressor

Pressure drop

Engineering

Chemistry

Materials science

Sodium-cooled fast reactor

Brayton cycle

Overall pressure ratio

Thermal efficiency

Mechanical engineering

Coolant

Thermodynamics

Energy

This paper presents optimization of a supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycle for three types of 300-MWth small modular reactors (SMRs); a pressuri…

Optimization and thermodynamic analysis of supercritical CO2 Brayton recompression cycle for various small modular reactors