A summary of the ECAS performance and cost results for MHD systems
Abstract
The potential is examined of various advanced power plant concepts using coal and coal-derived fuel. The results indicate that open cycle coal fired direct preheat MHD systems have potentially one of the highest coal-pile-to-bus-bar efficiencies and also one of the lowest costs of electricity (COE) of the systems studied. Closed cycle MHD systems may have the potential to approach the efficiency and COE of open cycle MHD. The 1200-1500 F liquid metal MHD systems studied do not appear to have the potential of exceeding the efficiency or competing with the COE of advanced steam plants.
- Publication:
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Proposed for presentation at the Fifteenth Symp. on the Eng. Aspects of Magnetohydrodynamics
- Pub Date:
- 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976aspa.sympR..24S
- Keywords:
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- Cost Effectiveness;
- Energy Conservation;
- Energy Policy;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Generators;
- Coal;
- Electricity;
- Energy Technology;
- Low Cost;
- Energy Production and Conversion