RESEARCH PROGRAM ON CLOSED-CYCLE MAGNETOPLASMA DYNAMIC ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION WITH NON EQUILIBRIUM IONIZATION
Abstract
Research was continued on efforts to experimentally demonstrate the principle of non-equilibrium ionization under actual closed-cycle magnetoplasmadynamic generator operation conditions, to verify the basic phenomena underlying the behavior of moving ionized gases in the non equilibrium state when interacting with a magnetic field by correlation of the experimental results with the theory of non-equilibrium ionization and to investigate the potential performance of the MPD power generator with non equilibrium ionization in closed-cycle systems having a reactor heat source. A closed-cycle MPD electrical power generator research loop was fabricated and erected, a theory of the MPD generator with non-equilibrium ionization was developed and was correlated with experiments on cesium-seeded helium discharge tubes and the performance of the closed loop MPD electrical power generator with non- equilibrium ionization was investigated with respect to the feasible duct and loop arrangements.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1962
- Accession Number
- AD0408103
Entities
People
- M. E. Talaat
Organizations
- Glenn L. Martin Company