US 12,331,663 B2
Nuclear reactor system based indirect heat cycle management
José N. Reyes, Jr., Corvallis, OR (US); John Swanson, Glen Allen, VA (US); Luis DePavia, Corvallis, OR (US); Francis Y. Tsang, Bellingham, WA (US); Zack Houghton, Salem, OR (US); and Mustafa Aljabery, Eugene, OR (US)
Assigned to NuScale Power, LLC, Corvallis, OR (US)
Filed by NuScale Power, LLC, Corvallis, OR (US)
Filed on May 24, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/674,614.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/504,231, filed on May 25, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0392700 A1, Nov. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. F01K 11/02 (2006.01); F01K 13/00 (2006.01); F01K 23/10 (2006.01)
CPC F01K 11/02 (2013.01) [F01K 13/006 (2013.01); F01K 23/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An integrated system for indirect cycle steam heating, the integrated system comprising:
a nuclear power module configured to output initial steam;
a turbine generator configured to receive the initial steam and output first steam;
at least one heat exchanger configured to:
receive water,
receive at least one of:
the initial steam via a turbine bypass, and
first steam, and
transfer heat from the at least one of the initial steam and the first steam into the water to create second steam;
a peaking heater configured to:
receive the second steam,
transfer augmenting heat into the second steam, and
convert, based at least in part on the transferring of the augmenting heat, the second steam to a third steam with a temperature above a threshold temperature;
a recipient configured to receive the third steam, the recipient comprising an auxiliary heater or a chemical processing plant.