RESEARCH IN MHD POWER GENERATION.
Abstract
The present program is directed toward research into non-thermal and metastable ionization with either metal vapors, seeded gases, or rare gases. The program has been devided into the five following subtasks: (1) The two-inch heated shock tube, which is designed to demonstrate and to investigate the phenomena of non-thermal and metastable ionization in a magnetic field using seeded and pure rare gases. (2) The Barium diode experiment which by the method of line absorption has been adapted to study non-thermal electrical discharges. (3) The closed loop MHD experiment at the GE Research Laboratory, which utilizes seeded rare gases and is designed to investigate an MHD system in which there are no moving parts. (4) Cycle analyses of systems using MHD generators. (5) Theoretical studies of metastable ionization and magnetohydrodynamic flows under the influence of non-thermal ionization. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 30, 1963
- Accession Number
- AD0421896
Entities
Organizations
- General Electric