In electrical engineering, current limiting reactors can reduce short-circuit currents, which result from plant expansions and power source additions...
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Thyristor-switched capacitor (section TSC reactor)
in series with a bidirectional thyristor valve and, usually, a current limiting reactor (inductor). The thyristor switched capacitor is an important component...
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power grid A current limiting reactor is used to limit starting current of motors and to protect variable frequency drives Nuclear reactor, a device for...
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three-phase systems. Current limiting reactor Valens, Clemens (12 March 2020). "How-To Calculate the Prospective Short-Circuit Current or PSCC". Elektor...
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Series reactors are used as current limiting reactors to increase the impedance of a system. They are also used for neutral earthing. Such reactors are also...
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The small modular reactor (SMR) is a class of small nuclear fission reactor, designed to be built in a factory, shipped to operational sites for installation...
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needed] Though the current BWRs are considered to be less likely to suffer core damage from the "1 in 100,000 reactor-year" limiting fault than the present...
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Fusion power (redirect from Fusion reactor)
efficiency and heightened safety risks in fusion reactors. SiC tends to trap more tritium, limiting its availability for fusion and increasing the risk...
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life. The Centurion Reactor is a future class of nuclear reactor that is being designed to last 100 years. One of the major limiting wear factors is the...
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Containment building (redirect from Reactor building)
is a reinforced steel, concrete or lead structure enclosing a nuclear reactor. It is designed, in any emergency, to contain the escape of radioactive...
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equivalent to 11 years of emissions left for limiting warming to 1.5 °C while the construction of new nuclear reactors took a median of 7.2–10.9 years in 2018–2020...
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Thorium fuel cycle (redirect from Thorium reactor)
that uses an isotope of thorium, 232 Th, as the fertile material. In the reactor, 232 Th is transmuted into the fissile artificial uranium isotope 233 U...
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The advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR) is a Generation III boiling water reactor. The ABWR is currently offered by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH)...
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Bioreactor (redirect from Bio reactor)
classified as batch, fed batch or continuous (e.g. a continuous stirred-tank reactor model). An example of a continuous bioreactor is the chemostat.[citation...
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The Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) was an experimental molten-salt reactor research reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge...
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with United States support. It expanded in the 1970s with plans for power reactors, paused after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and resumed secretly during...
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charging current from the voltage source decreases exponentially with time. Constant current Current limiting Current loop Current mirror Current sources...
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adjusted to meet varying system conditions. Thyristor-controlled reactors can be used for limiting voltage rises on lightly loaded transmission lines. Another...
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The integral fast reactor (IFR), originally the advanced liquid-metal reactor (ALMR), is a design for a nuclear reactor using fast neutrons and no neutron...
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plants. Currently, reactor capacity is growing slowly and reactors are being run more productively, with higher capacity factors and reactor power levels...
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Nuclear power in China (section Reactor technologies)
more current Hualong One design. The CNP series of Generation II reactors started with the CNP-300 pressurized water reactor, was the first reactor design...
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materials are inherently self-limiting. On the other hand, NTC material may also be inherently self-limiting if constant current power source is used. Some...
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actually incrementally increases the effective inductance; in a shunt reactor an air gap is used for two reasons: with an ungapped core the reluctance...
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Union on the site of the event. The liquidators are widely credited with limiting both the immediate and long-term damage from the disaster. Surviving liquidators...
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Thermal runaway (redirect from Current hogging)
typically incorporate current limiting protection, such as thermal fuses, circuit breakers, or PTC current limiters. To handle larger currents, circuit designers...
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Reactor"), a research reactor operated by the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, USSR. Electricity was generated for the first time by a nuclear reactor on...
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Nuclear power in Japan (section Light water reactors)
nuclear reactors. After the Fukushima accident, all reactors were shut down temporarily. As of November 2024[update], of the 54 nuclear reactors present...
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integral molten salt reactor (IMSR) is a nuclear power plant design targeted at developing a commercial product for the small modular reactor (SMR) market. It...
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Electrical ballast (section Current limiting)
amount of current in an electrical circuit. A familiar and widely used example is the inductive ballast used in fluorescent lamps to limit the current through...
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Product inhibition (section Reactor design)
is the use of a membrane reactor. These bioreactors uses a membrane to separate products from the rest of the reactor, limiting their inhibition. If the...
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