Indian MHD programme - status review
- Bharat Heavy Electricals, Tiruchirappalli (India)
MHD technology development activities are carried out in 5MWt MHD pilot plant and auxiliary component test rigs. The airpreheater, hot air duct, FRP duct, main combustor, nozzle and downstream ducts have been successfully worked for about 2200 hours. Present direction of experimentation is to develop further the hot wall channel and demonstrate high enthalpy extraction. Initial experiments on MHD channel used water cooled copper electrodes filled with ceramics and was operated in cold mode. The current drain was low in this case and a new generator has been designed to operate at a thermal input of 8 MWt and a hot wall temperature around 1800 C. The status of recent experiments in MHD flow train and development of subsystems are discussed in this paper.
- OSTI ID:
- 273295
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-930626-; TRN: 96:003380-0003
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 31. symposium on engineering aspects of magnetohydrodynamics, Whitefish, MT (United States), 29 Jun - 1 Jul 1993; Other Information: PBD: 1993; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 31st symposium on engineering aspects of magnetohydrodynamics; PB: 570 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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