MHD coal-fired flow facility. Quarterly technical progress report, April - June 1981

Technical Report · Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5090123

Altstatt, M C; Attig, R C; Brosnan, D A

The University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) reports on significant activity, task status, planned research, testing, and development for the Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Coal-Fired Flow Facility (CFFF) and the Energy Conversion Facility (ECF). Under task 1, work was completed on the holding ponds, extension of the stack platform, the shelter for the demineralized water system and the Low Mass Flow Quench System. On Task 2 Shakedown testing continued on the Low Mass Flow Train, consisting of vitiation heater, combustor, nozzle, replacement duct, diffuser, radiant furnace and secondary combustor. Under Task 3, laboratories are functioning to support both ECF and CFFF testing as well as environmental requirements. Negotiations with MERDI to supply a third monitoring trailer and instruments for CFFF were finalized. For Task 4, the CFFF shakedown is continued. No major problems have been found. Under task 7, the LDV system in the cold flow facility is now fully operational. Numerical modeling of isothermal combustor flows has been finished. (WHK)

• Research Organization: Tennessee Univ., Tullahoma (USA). Space Inst.
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-79ET10815
• OSTI ID: 5090123
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/10815-73; ON: DE82019832
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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