Insights into Methodologies and Stochastic Optimization of Thermal Energy Storage-Coupled Advanced Reactor Systems: A Comparison of Methods for Accessing Long-Term Sub-System Sizing Adequacy
Abstract
RESEARCH QUESTIONS • What's the optimal capacity for a Nuclear-Thermal Energy Storage (TES) plant to maximize revenue? • What's a reasonable dispatch window for the optimization process? • How do market signals affect TES plant size and operations? Workflow for HERON optimization: HERON uses trained electricity price signals as the main economic drivers, implementing cost functions to minimize the expenses related to three TES-coupled High Temperature Gascooled Reactor (HTGR) modules: charger, discharger (including Balance of Power (BOP)), and TES
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