Pulsed magnetohydrodynamic generator with a superconducting magnetic system. [Translated from Russian]

Technical Report · Fri Nov 08 00:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6247617

Kirillin, V A; Sheyndlin, A Ye; Asinovskiy, E I; Sychev, V V; Zenkevich, V B

An urgent need for creating independent sources of electric power capable of generating a power of tens or hundreds of megawatts in a few milliseconds has now emerged. A pulsed MHD generator, in which the conversion of mechanical energy of explosion products into electrical energy is accomplished, can serve as such a power source. There are published reports on testing of such MHD generators with ordinary magnetic systems. It seemed advisable to study the operation of a pulsed generator with a superconductive magnetic system in the overall plan of research on the creation of magnetohydrodynamic generators. The creation of a pulsed MHD generator with a superconductive magnetic system would make it possible to improve substantially the operational indicators of the installation and to ensure its continuous operation, regardless of the presence of additional power sources for feeding the magnet. The problem of creating an optimum generator and a magnetic system with the maximum acceptable field intensity was not raised in the first stage. The purpose of the work was to investigate the set of questions which arise in the joint use of a pulsed MHD generator and a superconductive magnetic system.

• Research Organization: Air Force Systems Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (USA). Foreign Technology Div.
• OSTI ID: 6247617
• Report Number(s): AD-A-161812/3/XAB; FTD-ID(RS)T-0754-85
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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