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For my final project in Energy Systems, I modeled a modular pebble bed nuclear reactor with a closed gas turbine system. The gas turbine was mathematically modeled in EES to determine the pressure ratio for the minimum life cycle cost.

The left figure depicts the energy cycle of the closed gas turbine system with a modular pebble bed nuclear reactor as the power source. The pressure ratio of the turbine system was swept to determine minimum life cycle cost in the right figure.