Header-platen high-pressure heaters

Abstract

We present a new schematic design of high-pressure heaters for the regeneration systems of turbine units used at nuclear and thermal power stations, which features better reliability, smaller weight and overall dimensions, and higher thermal efficiency as compared with those characteristic for the design of the well-known types of heaters. We also show that it is possible to construct heaters for high pressures typical for supercritical-pressure boilers with the use of existing domestically made materials.