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PamW

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7. Brayton Cycle..

Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:16 AM

Jan 2012

Brayton-cycle generator tech is almost more important than the reactors themselves..
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Yes - I remember working out a problem as a doctoral student at MIT in which there was a gaseous fuel reactor with the gaseous fuel also serving as the working fluid of a Brayton cycle. One had to determine the dynamics of such a system. Hint: as power increases, so does the speed of the Brayton cycle compressor, so the pressure goes up in the gaseous fuel, hence the density goes up in the gaseous fuel, and that does what to the reactivity?.....

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Thank You PamW Jan 2012 #4

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Lack of understanding begets poor interpretation. PamW Jan 2012 #11

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