RESEARCH ON INERT GAS MFD ENERGY CONVERSION.

Abstract

The report contains a discussion of the results of a research program to determine the bulk properties of plasmas in the MFD disk generator driven by a high temperature, large mass flow, alkali shock tunnel. Also, the performance of the MFD disk generator is examined as a promising high Hall coefficient, high power density MFD power generator. Specifically, the study phases are: Theoretical studies of two-temperature plasmas operating at high Hall coefficients; one-dimensional analysis of non-equilibrium flows in a MFD disk generator; theoretical study of the MFD disk generator as a practical power generator; description of the large MFD generator facility; experimental studies of high Hall coefficients in an argon-driven generator; experimental studies of an argon-driven generator with upstream pre-ionization; experimental studies of a nitrogen-driven generator. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0694529

Entities

People

  • Jean F. Louis

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Buildings And Structures
  • Coefficients
  • Conversion
  • Energy
  • Energy Conversion
  • Flow
  • Generators
  • High Temperature
  • Ionization
  • Mass
  • Mass Flow
  • Nitrogen
  • Shock Tunnels
  • Test Facilities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics.