TY - JOUR N2 - Consumption of energy is one of the important indicators in developing countries, but a lot of companies from the energy sector have to cope with three key challenges, namely how to reduce their impact on the environment, how to ensure the low cost of the energy production and how to improve the system overall performance? For Polish energy market, the number of challenges is greater. The growing demand for electricity and contemporary development of nuclear power technology allow today’s design, implement new solutions for high energy conversion system low unit cost for energy and fuel production. In the present paper, numerical analysis of modular high-temperature nuclear reactor coupled with the steam cycle for electricity production has been presented. The analysed system consists of three independent cycles. The first two are high-temperature nuclear reactor cycles which are equipped with two high-temperature nuclear reactors, heat exchangers, blowers, steam generators. The third cycle is a Rankine cycle which is equipped with up to four steam turbines, that operate in the heat recovery system. The analysis of such a system shows that is possible to achieve significantly greater efficiency than offered by traditional nuclear reactor technology. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/113503/PDF/03_paper.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/113503 PY - 2019 IS - No 4 EP - 66 DO - 10.24425/ather.2019.130007 KW - Modular high-temperature nuclear reactor HTR KW - Rankine cycle KW - Steam turbine A1 - Dudek, Michał A1 - Jaszczur, Marek A1 - Kolenda, Zygmunt PB - The Committee of Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences VL - vol. 40 DA - 2019.12.27 T1 - Thermodynamic analysis of modular high-temperature nuclear reactor coupled with the steam cycle for power generation SP - 49 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/113503 T2 - Archives of Thermodynamics ER -