INVESTIGATION OF A LARGE SCALE NON-EQUILIBRIUM MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC GENERATOR.

Abstract

A large portion of the effort of the present contract year was devoted to 'technology problems,' namely, the development of a satisfactory cesium seeding technique, the development of the thermionically emitting electrodes compatible with the shock tube MHD generator, the design of a large MHD magnet, the design of a new MHD channel, and the development of additional diagnostic techniques. A considerable number of MHD experiments with cesium seeded, noble gases were performed. An analytical study of power optimization in linear MHD generators was undertaken. A study of the effect of molecular gases on the generator performance was undertaken.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 31, 1970
Accession Number
AD0711351

Entities

People

  • B. Zauderer

Organizations

  • General Electric

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contracts
  • Electric Generators
  • Electrodes
  • Energy Systems
  • Generators
  • Magnetohydrodynamic Generators
  • Noble Gases
  • Optimization
  • Shock Tubes
  • Tubes

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Plasma Physics.