Sankey Diagram Nuclear Power Station
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Sankey diagram nuclear power station. This seems to be a comparison of power plant technologies kondensationskraftwerk vs. You can use the sankey diagram tool to view several graphs showing how different variables change over time. State the energy transformations in using nuclear fuels to generate electrical energy. Sankey diagrams summarise all the energy transfers taking place in a process.
Thermal energy in heat exchanger steam rotational mechanical energy kinetic energy electrical energy in turbines. But overall a very good sankey diagram that gets the message across. A sankey diagram gives a visual illustration of an input output situation. Nuclear heat is the thermal energy produced in a nuclear power plant nuclear energy.
10 1115 gt2010 23058 by irrazabal bohorquez et al. It is obtained from the nuclear fission of atoms usually of uranium and plutonium. Each year the department of energy s llnl releases a sankey diagram that tracks the nation s consumption of energy resources. Definitely worth a fav point the 2050 scenario by ida foresees a nuclear free 100 renewable energy production with biomass and wind power being the main energy souces.
The sankey diagram is in german and from the quality of the image i assume it is a scan from a printed publication. Nuclear energy in fuel thermal energy in coolant. India s 220 mw kaiga 1 nuclear power plant an indigenously. Nuclear heat cannot be split into individual products.
Sankey diagrams allow us to visualize flow through a process or system more easily than a table of. The colour in the sankey diagram is pink rbg 200 75 150. Of the universidade federal de itajubá unifei in brazil has several sankey diagrams to visualize energy flows in repowered thermal power plants. Sankey diagrams are drawn to scale the thicker the line or arrow the greater the amount of energy involved.
There are lots of variations as to how they are drawn only thing they have in common is that the width of the arms represents the energy transferred but the length of the arms does not. The base situation a in the power plant built in the 1970ies is shown in this sankey diagram. Into electricity or the energy transformed in nuclear or thermal power plants e g. Burning of oil coal gasandbiofuels.
It is drawn to scale. Depending on the selected unit and the x axis. The y axis is the energy content in tj ktoe etc.