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Nicolas TAUVERON

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Published on 27 September 2024

Nicolas TAUVERON

Dr. hab. , CEA Fellow​​

He joined CEA in 1999 and spent 20 years working on the thermodynamic cycles of innovative nuclear reactors. For the past decade, he has been working on energy efficiency for industry and heat conversion processes in general. 

He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Mines Paris-PSL and obtained his doctorate from Ecole Centrale de Lyon. He received his habilitation in 2013 on the multi-scale unsteady modelling of turbomachinery​.

He has co-authored more than 70 international publications and holds 25 patents.​

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Team

  • 5 staff
  • 2 postdocs
  • 2 PhD students​​

Research Activities​

His research activities focus on applied thermodynamics: Rankine cycle with organic fluid or steam, transcritical cycle, open and closed Brayton cycles for electricity production, heat pumps and refrigeration.

​The systems currently studied can integrate different processes and couplings: electricity-hydrogen cogeneration from a nuclear reactor, Carnot batteries for massive electricity storage, trithermal machines, etc.​


Selected publications and conferences:​

    • Organic Rankine cycle design and performance comparison based on experimental database​​​, ​ Applied Energy​​, 2017​, DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.04.012
    • On the Dynamic Modeling of Brayton Cycle Power Conversion Systems with the CATHARE-3 Code, Energy​, 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.11.063
    • Zeotropic mixtures study in plate heat exchangers and ORC systems, Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023, DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2022.119418
    • Development of a cooling and power generation prototype integrating an axial micro-turbine in an absorption chiller, Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023, DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2023.121026
    • A Recent Advance on Partial Evaporating Organic Rankine Cycle: Experimental Results on an Axial Turbine​​, ​ Energies​, 2022​, DOI: 10.3390/en15207559

    Selected patents:

    • 2022 | Light-water-reactor (LWR) nuclear cogeneration plant and high-temperature water electrolysis system(s) for producing hydrogen using heat from the LWR, WO2024/133496
    • 2021 | Nuclear light water reactor, in particular pressurized water or boiling water, with a cold ground source, and integrating an autonomous residual power drain, EP4216233
    • 2019 | System for co-producing electrical energy and cold thermal energy and associated method, EP3748137