Compact Fusion Advanced Rankine (CFARII) power cycle---Operating regimes

Conference · Mon Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5002244

Logan, B G

Performance (cost/kWe and efficiency) of generic Compact Fusion Advanced Rankine (CFARII) power conversion is investigated for various working fluids, operating temperatures and pressures, and thermal power levels. A general conclusion is that good CFARII performance is found for a remarkably broad range of materials, temperatures, pressures and power levels, which gives considerable flexibility to future design studies which may apply CFARII energy conversion to specific fusion energy sources such as ICF, MICF, and Mini-PACER. 5 refs, 7 figs., 2 tabs.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5002244
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC-108494; CONF-910968-24; ON: DE92002171; TRN: 91-032301
• Resource Relation: Conference: 14. IEEE symposium on fusion engineering, San Diego, CA (United States), 30 Sep - 3 Oct 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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