The second joint test of a U.S. electrode system in the U.S.S.R. U-02 facility
Abstract
The phase II joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. test of U.S. electrode materials was carried out in Moscow during September 1976 in the Soviet U-02 MHD facility. The test procedure was designed to test five different electrode materials, different lead-out and attachments, and the cathode and anode electrode walls under MHD generator operating conditions. The electrode materials were (in mol%) graded CeO2/ZrO2/Ta2O5, 50CeO2:50ZrO2, 75MgAl2O4:25Fe3O4, 75FeAl2O4:25Fe3O4, and La .95Mg .05CrO3 (LaMg .05Cr .95O3). The electrodes were separately loaded to various assigned current densities during the experiment which lasted a total of 131 hours with 75 hours under MHD power operational conditions
- Publication:
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16th Symposium on the Engineering Aspects of Magnetohydrodynamics
- Pub Date:
- 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977seam.procQ....R
- Keywords:
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- Electrodes;
- International Cooperation;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Generators;
- Current Density;
- Oxides;
- Research And Development;
- Plasma Physics