Recent activities on CCMHD power generation studies with Fuji-1 blow-down facility
- Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama (Japan); and others
Recent activities on experimental studies with closed cycle MBD {open_quotes}Fuji-1{open_quotes} blow-down facility at Tokyo Institute of Technology are presented. A new disk generator ( Disk-F4 ) has been installed and a new seed injection system has been introduced from IVTAN (Institute of High Temperature in Russia) in 1994.The design concept of the new generator channel is focused mainly on the reliability of high power generation. The Mach number at the generator inlet and the thermal input are increased up to {approximately}2.8 and {approximately}3.0 MW, respectively. In the new seeding system, a melted seed material is pushed by a piston dozator, instead of gas-pressure-driven in the previous system. The controllability of seed fraction is markedly improved, and the large fluctuation as has been observed previously is diminished, although the spatial non-uniformity of seed fraction which could occur in the all previous experiments is observed. In the power generation experiments with the new components, the maximum power output of 502 kW and the enthalpy extraction ratio of 16.7% have been obtained. These values at the present stage are lower than the maximum values previously achieved in the facility. However, the reliable high power generation can be expected for the new generator.
- OSTI ID:
- 254619
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950697-; TRN: 96:002621-0006
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 33. symposium on engineering aspects of magnetohydrodynamics, Tullahoma, TN (United States), 13-15 Jun 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the SEAM 33rd symposium on engineering aspects of magnetohydrodynamics; PB: 500 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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