Design studies and trade-off analyses for a superconducting magnet/MHD power generator system
Abstract
The considered system is to be used in a facility which is designed for the development of coal fired MHD systems. The facility, as presently planned, will provide a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen preheated by a heater to simulate oxygen enriched air. Four principal equations bearing on the selection of a physical configuration for the magnet are investigated. An analysis indicates that a superconducting magnet having an overall length of 5 M. (3.1 M. effective length) with a warm bore having an entrance diameter of .6M or larger and capable of supporting the channel loading, a peak magnetic field of 6 Tesla and a warm bore taper that matches MHD Generator taper for the 27.8 Kg/sec mass flow case provides the best choice for experimental utility in the facility.
- Publication:
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13th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978iece.conf.1283C
- Keywords:
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- Coal Utilization;
- Design Analysis;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Generators;
- Superconducting Magnets;
- Systems Engineering;
- Combustion Chambers;
- Electric Power Plants;
- Energy Technology;
- Tradeoffs;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering