Primary Inventor: Krishna P. Singh
Contributing Inventor(s): Joseph Rajkumar
Date: December 26, 2017
Status: Granted
Assignee: SMR Inventec, LLC
Jurisdiction: US
Equipment Type: SMR-160
Docket Number: HOL-061
Application Number: 14/397,135
Patent Number(s): US 9,852,820 B2
Prior Publication Data: US 2015/0110236 A1
Related U.S. Publication Data: Provisional application No. 61/638,257, filed on April 25, 2012.
PCT Pub. No: WO 2013/163475 A1
PCT Pub Date: October 31, 2013
PCT No.: PCT/US2013/038289
Also Published as: 101630428
Abstract: A nuclear steam supply system utilizing gravity-driven natural circulation for primary coolant flow through a fluidly interconnected reactor vessel and a steam generating vessel. In one embodiment, the steam generating vessel includes a plurality of vertically stacked heat exchangers operable to convert a secondary coolant from a saturated liquid to superheated steam by utilizing heat gained by the may be working fluid associated with a Rankine power cycle turbine-generator set in some embodiments. The steam generating vessel and reactor vessel may each be comprised of vertically elongated shells, which in one embodiment are arranged in lateral adjacent relationship. In one embodiment, the reactor vessel are physically discrete self-supporting structures which may be physically located in the same containment vessel.