Nuclear Power Technology Development Section
NUCLEAR DESALINATION
China
National Projects:
NHR-200 Nuclear Desalination Units Planned
- International Projects:
- CRP-1 on "Optimization of coupling of nuclear reactor and desalination systems"
- CRP-2 on "Economic Research on, and Assessment of, Selected Nuclear Desalination Projects and Case Studies"
The Yantai Municipal Government and the Tsinghua University have initiated a joint project of Yantai Nuclear Seawater Desalination Plant using an NHR-200 coupled with the vertical tube (VT)-MED process. The agreement was signed to carry out a joint pre-feasibility study by the Yantai Municipal and the Tsinghua University. The production capacity of the plant in the project is 160 000 m3/d.
2 units of the Nuclear Heating Reactor NHR-200 (200 MWth) for district heating in Shenyang city proposed by the Shenyang Municipal Government and approved by the State Development Planning Commission.
VT-MED Test Facility at INET
A test facility of the VT-MED process with 5 effects is installed in the Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology of Tsinghua University. This facility is designed to test and validate the hydraulic and thermal behaviour and chemical treatment for the VT-MED process, which could be applied to the Yantai Nuclear Seawater Desalination Project.
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Last modified: September, 2004