Exergoeconomic optimization of a 1000 MW light water reactor power generation system

A typical 1000 MW pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant is considered for optimization. The thermodynamic modeling is performed based on the energy and exergy analysis, while an economic model is developed according to the total revenue requirement method. The objective function based on the exergoeconomic analysis is obtained. The exergoeconomic optimization process with 10 decision variables is performed using a hybrid stochastic/deterministic search algorithm namely as genetic algorithm. The results that are obtained using optimization process are compared with the base case system and the discussion is presented. Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.