Efficiency of a Faraday MHDG in a scheme with a thermonuclear reactor
Abstract
The use of a Faraday MHD generator as a converter of thermonuclear to electric energy is discussed. A quasi-one-dimensional method for calculating such generators is proposed, and supersonic MHD-generators operating with water, argon, and helium (with potassium and lithium additions) are examined. Some aspects of obtaining maximum efficiency in the case of a generator operating with an equilibrium plasma are studied.
- Publication:
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High Temperature Science
- Pub Date:
- January 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978HTemS..15..741B