Some Questions of the Effectiveness of the Production of Electroenergy in MHD-Generator in a Nonequilibrium Plasma,
Abstract
The work deals with efficiency of electric power production in magnetohydrodynamic generators (mainly, on non-equilibrium plasma) in application to stationary high ppower plants. The authors prove that the future of such plants with a linear sectional conduction (Faraday) generator is very doubtful, because with given field inductions (reasonable in the near future), given reactor pressure and given gas temperature of which seem to represent the technological limits for the next decade, efficiency of the power plant will not exceed 40 percent. Even with very optimistic assumptions, with a given reactor pressure, power plant efficiency of greater than 50 percent can be reached with a unit power of the magnetohydrodynamic generator of given amount. These low efficiency values of the power plant are due to the fact that the physical operating principle (plasma ionization, and others) of the generator under consideration and its electrogasdynamic circuit prevents achieving high efficiency of internal energy conversion in the channel.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0724973
Entities
People
- A. V. Gubarev
- V. A. Gurashvili
- V. V. Breev
Organizations
- National Air and Space Intelligence Center